Sometimes I wonder why it is difficult and painful for the educational system to free itself of its imprisonment in the 1920s. Is it because it unconsciously desires to conserve everything else that goes with its "Gabaldon architecture", a style that is really not only unimpressive but is hard to maintain? Is it because it unconsciously cherishes the peace time before the Second World War?

Look at contemporary faculty dynamics--their regressions, their jealousies, their flirtations, their smug self-importance, their wanting to have the last word all the time, their fake religiosity, and their closed-mindedness to everything outside their frames of reference. Are they not fixated in the 1920s too?