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- Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 18:34:14 CST
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- From: Irvin Peckham <peckham@CWIS.UNOMAHA.EDU>
- Subject: Re: (Fwd: *C&CD*) Do colleges require only first-year writing? (8)
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- at Jan 5, 93 10:47 am
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- >
- > One may
- > >argue that students who attend the ivies are better prepared (and of course
- > >they are) than the generally working class students--the ones who go to
- > >the cheaper schools, but I wonder if another social imperative is at
- > >work here?
- > >Irv
- >
- > "Better prepared for whose what?" might be another way to ask the question
- > and open the issue of the "social imperative" to the question of "Whose?"
- > as well.
- >
- > robt
- >
- > rmcdonell@ucsd.edu
- >
- Robert:
- Actually, I can't really remember what I was writing about. I think
- they are better prepared for assuming open-ended social role--they
- define their own projects, purposes, rewards, etc.--they are better
- prepared to assume positions that most of us find more rewarding than
- those positions in which roles and rewards are defined for us. The
- social imperative might be that those of us who have made our way into
- these positions have a deep interested in reserving those kinds of
- positions (which are, after all, more fun that the others) for our
- children--the ones who go to these elite schools.
- Irv
- How is ucsd these days? Let's meet at CCCC.
- --
- Irvin Peckham
- University of Nebraska at Omaha
- peckham@unomaha.edu
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