Orthodoxy @ MindSay 
This person's post really peeves me (emorybear76 ). Here is this genderless person's attempt at being intellectually superior.
"Bitter.
I'm becoming old and bitter. Well, 29 isn't old, I suppose...but I am bitter. I've been trying to figure out what to do with this webpage, and I think I've figured it out. I've decided to talk about things I don't like. So, here's a short list of some things I don't like this week:
1) Internet universities. I got my degrees from real schools, where there was real interaction with real people. Schools that are non-profit institutions, not money making diploma mills. Sorry, but University of Phoenix, Capella, and the rest just don't cut it. Some woman who messaged me the other day after seeing my personal ad on yahoo and said "I'm working on my Ph.D. too!" I asked where and she named one of those for-profit programs. It was obvious she thought she was getting a real degree. Pretty sad, really."
I've encountered this arrogance and delusional pretension far too often in the communities with which I'm involved. Interestingly enough, I read it almost immediately after reading desiderata's (desiderata) post. Quite a dichotomy.
My response? Well, here is my response. I posted it here (on my blog) and there (on its blog) for your benefit and soulful exhortation. Its gist - What you know is important (know as in possess with your heart and soul), not how you got it. Don't let anyone convince you otherwise.
Pretty sad? Those deluded by the rhetoric of academic propaganda are pretty good examples of what is sad. That gullibility represents the poverty of mind that inhibits the pedagogy of authentic education, not promotes it.
I got my education the organic way (the real way?), through the practice of life in the midst of the dialogue of living in specific communities; being both introspectively reflective and conversationally interactive (ergo, dialogue) with the multitudes with whom I was engaged in the same pursuit in community solidarity. Learning through personal involvement with ideas and ideologies outside the sterility of classrooms and in the venues in which they are applicable; in death and dying, fighting, on the battlefields of war, by teaching, counseling and advising, in criminal action, scuba diving, by political protests, hard drinking, with soup kitchen bums, loving, through indigent charity, world traveling, under communities of faith, praying, within religious quorums, loving, by parenting children, outside of society, sex, within society, et cetera. Learning in the participation of that complex amalgam of life's experiences that form the human predicament of one passionately seeking authenticity in life.
The examination of great texts is worthless without the practice of the knowledge evidenced in said texts. One must be engaged in life, living, and ideas; in the text and through the flesh. The grappling of the soul with one's cosmology, and one's being, in the crucible of daily living. That's the practical methodology of getting an education. The authentic Way.
Not like some chump who has only spent time in a classroom, in dialogue with others lacking the experiential knowledge sought, taught by one who talks about doing but no longer does, if they ever did at all, and led by an institution bent on profit and governed by people focused on tenure and pretension, not education for transcendence and transformation. The blind leading the blind in a circle of self-satisfaction bereft of authenticity and substance. Been there, done that. Alot.
It is the difference between an English major who can tell you about poetry, or a poet who can give you poetry. It is the distance between one who is and one who is not; the scholar of missiology or the missionary who has dedicated their life to their purpose and pursuit. Between orthodoxy and innovation. One cannot possess what one does not know.
Regurgitation is not education.
And the truth is that modality is of no consequence if the consequence of the modality is authentic knowledge.
You know what you know. That is the prooftext of an education.
