A response to Jackson Toby : On Pigeons, Pells and Student Incentives

A response to Jackson Toby : On Pigeons, Pells and Student Incentives
http://www.mindingthecampus.com/originals/2010/04/on_pigeons_pells_and_student_i.html
My Dear Mr. Toby:
I appreciate your eloquent speech on the need for higher standards in higher education. I am confident the entire education system from pre-K to graduate courses is in need of serious revision and restructuring. I even found your analogy of Skinner’s pigeons to fit well with your analysis of disincentives not just towards financial aid. I, unlike you are not as skilled in rhetoric and find the classics hold a continuum of historical information that has its relevance in an antiquated sense- that being the need for the elite to remain separate and dare I say unspoiled from the lower base sorts unskilled in “Porter's witticisms.” It seems to me higher education cannot serve the obsolete needs of the select few to remain separate while the rest of society wanes in a morass of the elite’s destructive legalese such as those defining corporations as people and the masses as rabble.