You might recall that Free Market Goddess Ayn Rand is a favorite of some of the money wingnuts. Her fiction is execrable and non-fiction is simplistic, something anyone out of high school should be able to grasp, so there's an inherent roadblock to spreading here ideas. The solution: Pay colleges to teach her works!!!
CEOs Pushing Ayn Rand Studies Use Money to Overcome Resistance
By Matthew Keenan
April 11 (Bloomberg) -- Ayn Rand's novels of headstrong entrepreneurs' battles against convention enjoy a devoted following in business circles. While academia has failed to embrace Rand, calling her philosophy simplistic, schools have agreed to teach her works in exchange for a donation.
The charitable arm of BB&T Corp., a banking company, pledged $1 million to the University of North Carolina Charlotte in 2005 and obtained an agreement that Rand's novel ``Atlas Shrugged'' would become required reading for students. Marshall University in Huntington, West Virginia, and Johnson C. Smith University in Charlotte, North Carolina, say they also took grants and agreed to teach Rand.
Friday, April 11, 2008
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LOL, perfect take on this. Sadly, a significant number of the kids who take these courses will internalize Rand's sophomoric notions and it will stay with them, hidden in their hindbrain, for the rest of their lives.
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