A Gettysburg Address Moment For Higher Education

I like to take the pulse of many a thing and as mentioned in yesterday's blog, I'm taking the pulse of the economic protest movement right now.

One of the issuses concerning our young people is access to higher education.  It seems that there are jobs out there, just not to many people qualified to take them and that's an education issue.

Cathy Davidson is a writer interested in the ways that digital information change our brains. She too, is concerned that this moment is being misinterpreted by our leaders.

Here is an article she wrote on how university leaders are misunderstanding what's happening on their campuses regarding the Occupy movement.

She says, "We’re at a turning point, a Gettysburg Address moment, where moral authority and moral force needs to be eloquently articulated before this historical moment devolves into violence and polarization. Our students are not wrong in the content of their protests. Calling the police does not address their issues; as we have seen too often, it can foster violence –with an ever-more imminent potential for tragedy."

For those of us who were involved and remember the student movement of the 60s and 70s, doesn't this sound familiar?