Oxford University students unable to embrace Cecil Rhodes legacy “should think about being educated elsewhere”, the institution’s chancellor has said."What actually Rhodes did at the end of his life was to leave his whole fortune to a scholarship programme which has helped to ensure that Oxford University manages to be a university for the whole world."Lord PattenLord Patten also said his university enjoys its current global standing because of the contribution made by Rhodes and the funding he left behind to allow students from all nationalities to study at Oxford.His comments follow weeks of debate over whether a statue of the colonialist politician should be removed from Oriel College following a petition from the Rhodes Must Fall movement to get rid of it.The debate over whether the statue should fall was reignited this week at the initiation of Professor Louise Richardson as the university’s first female vice-chancellor in nearly 800 years.Patten said members of the Rhodes Must Fall movement should be prepared to show the “generosity of spirit” Nelson Mandela showed when he joined forces with the Rhodes Trust to help poor students in South Africa have access to the British politician’s funding.Speaking to Radio 4 Today’s Programme, Lord Patten said: “We are giving them the respect to listening to their views even if we don’t agree with them."But if people at our university aren’t prepared to show the generosity of spirit which Nelson Mandela showed towards Rhodes and towards history, if they are not prepared to embrace all those values which are contained in the most important book for any undergraduate – Karl Popper’s Open Society – if they are not prepared to embrace those issues, then maybe they should think about being educated elsewhere.
Wish they would do that here in America. Instead we give in and give the protesters whatever they like.
Quote from: PSU on January 13, 2016, 03:01:43 PMWish they would do that here in America. Instead we give in and give the protesters whatever they like.To be honest - for the amount that is paid in tuition, room and board, etc for a typical 4 year public school, I'm surprised there aren't more protests.
Quote from: Dean "Turkey" Strang on January 13, 2016, 03:26:50 PM If you start college without a single scholarship, you're either a white male with shitty grades out of high school HA! Jokes on you, I got two. Thank god for that sweet sweet single parent privilege.
If you start college without a single scholarship, you're either a white male with shitty grades out of high school
Oxford Chancellor to protesters: "Think about being educated elsewhere."
