Robin Vos will never understand this

[lutefisk]

We cannot for a moment believe that knowledge has reached its final goal, or that the present condition of society is perfect. We must therefore welcome from our teachers such discussions as shall suggest the means and prepare the way by which knowledge may be extended, present evils be removed and others prevented. We feel that we would be unworthy of the position we hold if we did not believe in progress in all departments of knowledge. In all lines of academic investigation it is of the utmost importance that the investigator should be absolutely free to follow the indications of truth wherever they may lead. Whatever may be the limitations which trammel inquiry elsewhere we believe the great state University of Wisconsin should ever encourage that continual and fearless sifting and winnowing by which alone the truth can be found.
UW Board of Regents, 1894

[Jackpine Radical]

1. I wonder how many times I stopped to read that plaque

in the course of taking three degrees from that school. The Wisconsin Idea: "The boundaries of the University are the boundaries of the State." Bob LaFollette envisioned an enlightened state government informed by the "sifting and winnowing" of a great university. And for 60 or 70 years, that's the way it worked.

Robin Vos is a poster child for the Dunning-Kruger Effect. He denigrates everything he doesn't understand. Unfortunately, there is a very great deal that he does not understand.

[ewagner]

2. Not being a UW Alum.....

I never saw or read this until today....

I am truly inspired...and deeply in love with my adopted home state..

[Ed Suspicious]

3. All this in the age of the robber barons.

[Scuba]

4. Per Vos, the raison d'etre for the UW System is to prop up corporate profits, nothing else.