28 June 2011 @ 10:12 pm
vienmēr esmu bijusi pārliecināta, ka visiem nevajag universitātes izglītību  
In Does Education Matter?, Wolf illustrates the absurdity of the increase-the-graduates/increase-the-growth logic by reference to the high remuneration of lawyers. That is, given lawyers’ high wages, having more lawyers would surely mean that there are more and more people earning more and more dough, and therefore in total, society is becoming more and more wealthy.

‘[This] would suggest’, she writes, ‘that the fastest way to boost growth would be to send everyone to law school’. Which is clearly ridiculous. In fact, what the high remuneration of lawyers tells us is that we live in a highly regulated society – as opposed to a productive one – which consequently values lawyers. It doesn’t mean that churning out an ever-increasing number of law graduates is the elixir of economic growth. Likewise, Wolf writes, ‘it is no more self-evident that since some education makes some of us richer, more would make more of us richer, than it is that “two aspirin are good” means “five aspirin are better”’.

The wrongheaded belief that you can generate growth simply by increasing the number of graduates has led to the effacement of the structural problems of the economy. In other words, seeking the wrong answers has generated the wrong questions. For example, ‘there tends to be an obsession with how many engineers the UK produces, when the real question ought to be why haven’t we got more engineering industry?’, says Wolf. You don’t have to be a fully signed up economic determinist to recognise that our economic travails cannot be solved through education, education, education.

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šito vajadzētu izlasīt tiem, kas, runājot par LV augstākās izglītības problēmām, kā pamatojumu tam, ka nav jau tik slikti, piemin faktu, ka mums procentuāli ir viens no lielākajiem studējošo daudzumiem eirōpā. pseeeeeeeesh.
 
 
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briinumcepuminjsh[info]french_mime on June 29th, 2011 - 12:56 am
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briinumcepuminjsh[info]french_mime on June 29th, 2011 - 01:00 am
bwahahah,
Ireland, 1102. Aisling Ó Brannon should hate the Vikings who raided her village...especially after she’s captured as a gift for King Magnus by warrior Tharand Hardrata. But while her head says one thing, her body says quite another. Her attraction to the fierce and forbidding warrior cannot be ignored...even though she’s intended for another man’s bed. Tharand has vowed not to conquer Aisling, saving her for the king instead. But the beautiful Irish noblewoman awakes a powerful desire in him. He can’t stop himself from arousing her, bringing her to the peak of pleasure while trying to honor his promise.

As they near Magnus’s domain, Tharand’s restraint is tested beyond endurance. Soon he must choose: please his king...or keep his captive love-slave for himself.

http://www.amazon.com/The-Vikings-Forbidden-Love-Slave-ebook/dp/B002RI9N6A/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&m=A7B2F8DUJ88VZ&s=merchant-items&qid=1309298348&sr=1-1
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