From brennus@legranus.freeserve.co.uk Sun Mar 26 06:27:07 2000 Received: from mxu1.u.washington.edu (mxu1.u.washington.edu [140.142.32.8]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW99.09/8.9.3+UW99.09) with ESMTP id GAA20510 for ; Sun, 26 Mar 2000 06:27:06 -0800 Received: from cmailg6.svr.pol.co.uk (cmailg6.svr.pol.co.uk [195.92.195.176]) by mxu1.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW00.02/8.9.3+UW99.09) with ESMTP id GAA27542 for ; Sun, 26 Mar 2000 06:27:04 -0800 Received: from modem-107.pebble-butterfly.dialup.pol.co.uk ([62.137.49.107] helo=pc) by cmailg6.svr.pol.co.uk with smtp (Exim 3.13 #0) id 12ZE0M-0004vN-00 for classics@u.washington.edu; Sun, 26 Mar 2000 15:27:03 +0100 Message-ID: <004201bf972f$63547640$6b31893e@pc> From: "Brennus Legranus" To: References: <200003240010.TAA27588@darwin.helios.nd.edu> Subject: Re: Mike Harris's comments from a month ago Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2000 23:20:39 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2014.211 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2014.211 Who was it that said, "The study of the Classics equips you fro enjoying those things that they prevent you from affording"? ----- Original Message ----- From: Alfred M Kriman To: Sent: 24 March 2000 00:10 Subject: Re: Mike Harris's comments from a month ago > According to the Ontario _Citizen_ (newspaper) reports, the > controversial remarks were made on Wed. Feb. 9 to an audience of > employees at a "high tech" Datasym plant in Brantford, ON that > makes electronic cash registers. AFAIK the news media did not > remark the aptness to his remarks of the product there manufactured. > > >From articles on Feb. 11 (*): > > | Mr. Harris said he'd been criticized ''by a lot of academics'' for > | his efforts to direct more university resources toward > | technology-related training. > | > | ''Some of the traditional academics say 'well, Harris doesn't > | understand university. It's for higher learning. Unless you study > | Greek and Latin and all these things, you'll never be a real true > | thinker,''' he said to laughter from his audience. > | > | ''On the other hand, we seem to be graduating more people who are > | great thinkers, but they know nothing about math or science or > | engineering or the skill sets that are needed.'' > | > | Larry Sinclair, a manager at the Datasym plant that Mr. Harris was > | visiting, chimed in. > | > |''How many rich philosophers do you know?'' he asked with a smile. > > Premier Harris's comments were prompted by Mr. Sinclair, who complained > that the growth of his company is being hampered by a lack of trained > personnel to fill vacant jobs. > > (*) Given that the _Citizen_ publishes daily and that the plant visit > would probably have been during first shift, it seems the newspaper, > knowing it had a scoop, took its time to get rebuttal from some > university faculty and from the Ontario Confederation of University > Faculty Associations. > > .