Hello, all.

The article begins to expose some of the fallacious assumptions that underlie thinking about College Education these days.

Currently I am working on a series of short essays tentatively titled "Critical Thinking in Higher Education." The idea is to diagnose these sorts of fallacies. The first essay will be on "Fallacies of Normativity." It will identify three of the most common fallacies driving the "new normal" in higher education. The first is the assumption of a consequentialist analysis of the good. The second, related to the first, is the assumption of a consumerist model of the good. The third is the confusion of what is with what ought to be. 

Many of the arguments we hear about what needs (irony italics) to be done are based on these unexamined assumptions.

Thank you Jim and all who read and comment here.

Michael