What's your argument here? That schools should try to have ****tier campuses?
I wasn't making an argument. I was making an observation. Arguments employ a type of persuasive writing that attempts to lead the audience to their conclusion, such as the one you so articulately presented: schools should try to have ****tier campuses.
The observation I was emphasizing was that schools invest more of their income into the
appearance of a quality education rather than working towards
providing a quality education for students. At the end of the day it's easy to say that you've
bought and installed a new garden complex to improve your school's stance on the environment. It's shallow and it's irrefutable that people on the outside must admit that you've
done something. However, focusing on improving education, student resources, and turning over the current professor on a pulpit paradigm involves actual work with unknowable results. Those
unknowable results is
how to gauge the impact of making a change in the curriculum based on what can be considered to be success for the students. Will it be the scores they receive, completion to graduation, or the appointments they gain in life? And what tangible value does student success contribute back to the school?
Administrators are afraid to invest fully in such a premise, when the impact of such an investment isn't tangible and doesn't show up on a quarterly report. Does a graduate who wins a prize for a documentary via their report on nepal sweatshops a la gonzo journalism many years after graduation really matter to an investor as much as a new scenic bridge over a small lake with their name on it?
I thought it was relatively clear that my post highlights the notion that a post-secondary education should be focused on education in and of itself, a Kantian idealism where the notion of education isn't merely used as a means to sequester more tuition dollars, investors, and research capital. One could make the argument that there are plenty of ways in which this is achievable, but you already know that there are efficient ways of providing a better education to students rather than turning a school into a Walt Disney Land.
Don't play coy with me by misconstruing an intrinsically basic premise. We all at least have a single neuron, don't tell me yours is only sensory. Get it? That's the joke. I'm insulting you when I imply that you aren't using your brain, but I'm polite enough to tell you that it's an insult because I am not treating you like an idiot by pretending to
insinuate it.