By: M C

M C — Thu, 11 Jun 2020 18:44:45 +0000

It’s surely lamentable that Oberlin has effectively changed its motto from “Learning and Labor” to “Think One Person Can Change the World? So Do We.”

The former bespeaks a humility that is becoming. The latter suggests a form of hubris that is just plain silly.

For those interested, there are still a handful of “work” colleges in the United States. The most notable, perhaps, is Berea College in Kentucky. Here’s a link with info about all of them:https://workcolleges.org/

Surely Oberlin College would be a less foolish and more responsible institution if its students were required to work to maintain the operations and physical plant of the school. The kids would learn valuable lessons about the dignity of labor. This in turn might cause the administrators of the college to take less of a condescending and contemptuous view of hard-working local merchants, such as the Gibsons.

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By: M C