... Through profound misunderstanding <br />about me – who I was – or what <br />language I spoke condemned me to <br />an environment, maternal, <br />barren, unable to locate <br /><br />A clued-in educator for <br />my particular temperament. <br />I survived, and I pray you will <br />too in higher education <br />where the air is thinner and the <br /><br />Culture suffers from a super- <br />abundance of pretentious hacks, <br />corner-watchers, hall monitors, <br />felonious fragmenters of <br />humanity specializing <br /><br />In summarized values stuffed through <br />a gap in your head and filled with <br />vast amounts of information <br />void of clarity, grace or form. <br />Modern university is <br /><br />Out of touch with mainstream reason. <br />Simply put, that pillared building <br />is grandiose housing for an <br />illegitimate bathhouse steeped <br />in perverse philosophy taught <br /><br />By the elite pied pipers of <br />rhetorical progressivism <br />cut off from the temple of truth <br />distant from the virtuous whole <br />far from the wisdom of the soul. <br />-
