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Higher Tuition For an Engineering Degree
i_like_spam writes "The NYTimes is running a story about a new trend in tuition charges at public universities throughout the country. Differential pricing schemes are being implemented, whereby majors in engineering and business pay higher tuition rates than majors in arts and humanities. Last year, for instance, engineering majors at the University of Nebraska starting paying an extra $40 per credit hour. One argument in support of differential pricing is that professors in engineering and business are more expensive than in other fields. Officials at schools that are implementing differential pricing are aware of some of the downsides. A dean at Iowa State said he 'thought society was no longer looking at higher education as a common good but rather as a way for individuals to increase their earning power.' And a University of Kansas provost said, 'Where we have gone astray culturally is that we have focused almost exclusively on starting salary as an indicator of... the value of the particular major.'"
oh for fuck's sake, that isn't trolling, grow up.
is painful, please change it.
Because what this claims is that there is no gold which glitters, which is obviously false.
What it wants to say (and how the proverb is given in any other language) is that "Not all that is gold does glitter", i.e. that there are things which glitter but are mistaken to be gold (fools gold, i.e. pyrite, for example).
And this is not, as I am often accused of, a "misunderstanding of the English language" on my part, but yet another case of incorrectly usage of a word causing the English language to become less expressive, leading to the very stupidity lamented in rants about the English language:
What you can't express is very difficult to understand. In this case, you cannot express the difference between "none is" and "some are, but not all", thus reinforcing the delusion of a black and white world where either all are or none is.
Also, your attribution to Tolkien is only half correct: While he used it, he didn't come up with it. Indeed, it is a proverb known in many languages and, as noted above, put correctly in most of them - except English, where you manage to always fuck up negation.
Some links:
http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/notall.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_that_is_Gold_Doe
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sapir-Whorf_hypothes
In Soviet Russia, government controls corporations.
In Capitalist America, corporations control government.