Gainesville Sun Label’s Rick Scott a Yahoo Politician
Cleverly inferring Rick Scott’s loathing of liberalarts, the Gainesville Sun invoked a classic to mock his Neanderthal take on higher education.
In Scott’s dystopian view of Florida’s future, higher education will devote itself to the turning out of widget makers and drones in hot pursuit of billable hours; degree-bearing worker bees possessed of not a shred of curiosity about the human condition, no understanding of the underpinnings of civilization nor any inkling of what the study of humanity’s past can tell us about its future.
Scott intends this coming legislative session to “reform” higher education; by which he means abolishing tenure, defunding the liberal arts and relieving professors of the burden of original research so that they may concentrate on filling out the bubbles on their productivity measurement
