"Everyone has a right to a university degree in America, even if it's in Hamburger Technology"
- Clive James
About this Quote
This quote by Clive James is a satirical declaration which buffoons the idea that education in America is becoming progressively trivialized as well as concentrated on sensible, career-oriented areas like "Hamburger Technology" (or convenience food market management).
James is recommending that the American education system is placing excessive emphasis on trade training and inadequate on the liberal arts and liberal arts, which are generally associated with a well-rounded education.
This statement shows problems that some people have concerning the changing top priorities in college, along with criticisms that American schools are coming to be more like work training centers than centers of intellectual development and important reasoning.
Fundamentally, James is suggesting that while every person has a right to an university degree, the quality as well as emphasis of education in America is becoming progressively questionable, if degrees in fields like Hamburger Technology are considered equal in value to those in standard scholastic fields.
This quote is written / told by Clive James somewhere between October 7, 1939 and today. He was a famous Author from Australia, the quote is categorized under the topic Graduation. The author also have 8 other quotes.
"It's not just the effect of technology on the environment, on religion, on the economic structure, on society, on politics, etc. It's that everything now exists in technology to the point where technology is the new and comprehensive host of nature of life"
"I have an almost religious zeal... not for technology per se, but for the Internet which is for me, the nervous system of mother Earth, which I see as a living creature, linking up"
"Developments in information technology and globalised media mean that the most powerful military in the history of the world can lose a war, not on the battlefield of dust and blood, but on the battlefield of world opinion"
