Comments on: Academic Administration. Good or Evil? http://loveofhistory.com/academic-administration-good-or-evil/ A historical perspective of current events Sun, 04 Feb 2018 14:54:59 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.38 By: constantinakatsari http://loveofhistory.com/academic-administration-good-or-evil/#comment-44 Wed, 09 Dec 2009 06:01:37 +0000 http://constantinakatsari.wordpress.com/?p=29#comment-44 This is one of the most inspiring interpretations of Keynes theory as I can remember. According to some historians it is the ticket to great civilisations? Haven’t the Romans done someithing similar to occupy the masses (ooops I should not be using this word) in the cities?

]]> By: Richard Baron http://loveofhistory.com/academic-administration-good-or-evil/#comment-43 Tue, 08 Dec 2009 22:52:21 +0000 http://constantinakatsari.wordpress.com/?p=29#comment-43 Constantina, you are right. I have spent much of today on administrative tasks, and I feel good. But I should not feel good. Administrative tasks have as much intrinsic point to them as paying one group of workers to dig holes in the road and another group to fill them in again, Keynes’s prescription for recovery from economic depression.

Suppose that administration was all taken away from us by clever computers. We would feel lost for a while, but eventually we would find other ways to give our brains time off from serious thinking. Bertrand Russell’s essay “In Praise of Idleness” sets out a most virtuous circle. On the one hand, “Leisure is essential to civilization”. On the other hand, “The wise use of leisure, it must be conceded, is a product of civilization and education”.

]]> By: Manolis http://loveofhistory.com/academic-administration-good-or-evil/#comment-42 Tue, 08 Dec 2009 14:12:51 +0000 http://constantinakatsari.wordpress.com/?p=29#comment-42 Not that I ever had to do any administrative work, but reading your post made me want to use history only as an excuse to do paperwork!

Who needs history? Let’s live on paperwork!

]]> By: Kyriaki Noussia http://loveofhistory.com/academic-administration-good-or-evil/#comment-41 Mon, 07 Dec 2009 20:13:35 +0000 http://constantinakatsari.wordpress.com/?p=29#comment-41 Constantina, simply excelelnt (your article on acad. admin!) seriously…you have a journalist’s talent!

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