| From: | "J.D. Falk" <jdfalk@***.GWU.EDU> |
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| Subject: | Educational Institutions |
| Date: | Mon, 20 Dec 1993 00:58:29 -0500 |
fancy, you might say. I find it interesting, in other words.
In a discussion with Eric Trager, who knows much more about
Shadowrun history & such than I do, we came up with these ideas:
1 -- Corp wage slaves don't really need any education outside of
what the corp gives 'em.
2 -- Very few corps will employ enough neurosurgeons, as an
example, to have a complete neurosurgery training facility. For this,
either a number of corps will share it, or (more likely, really) it will
be independant -- perhaps where the National Institutes of Health is now
(Bethesda, Maryland, near Washington, D.C.) Other specialties would be
dealt with in much the same way.
So, the large colleges and such will probably have continued more
or less as before, as long as they could handle the governmental changes
(for example, Harvard is more likely to last than the University of
Maryland.) The smaller private places and the suddenly unfunded public
universities will probably have either closed up and been forgotten,
merged with other places nearby, or sold their campus, supplies, and
probably facuilty to a corp.
On the other hand, some of the governmentally-funded institutions
may _still_ be governmentally funded, serving much the same purpose as the
corp schools.
What do y'all think? I know most people are set NOMAIL right now,
or are just letting their boxes clutter (right, Fearless Leader?), so I'll
repost this later if my interest keeps up.
"Education with inert ideas is not only useless;
it is, above all things, harmful." -Alfred North Whitehead
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| J.D. Falk -- jdfalk@***.gwu.edu |
| (They done educated me real good) |
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