Friday, April 25, 2008

no, it's not new, but it's called the New School.

Someone asked me yesterday if I would send my (fictitious) children to the New School, which is where I got my BA. The answer is no, and here's why: The New School's heavy emphasis on deconstruction and post-modernism means that its students spend four years learning about what knowledge isn't, rather than what knowledge is. And, students like me (ones who think that the only thing more annoying than relativism is a gang of 18-year-olds convinced of its merits) develop the uncontrollable urge to roll their eyes at the mention of Foucault, et al. It's too much thoughtless counter-culture. My kids would probably go to Brown.