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...Germany. From 1929 to 1933, he provided legal and theoretical justifications for the Hindenburg government's dictatorial emergency decree system. Schmitt warned against a Nazi takeover, but his right-wing views became identified with the movement, and when Adolf Hitler took power in 1933, Schmitt opportunistically switched with the tide, becoming Prussian state councilor under Hermann Goring. He avoided prosecution as a war criminal at Nuremberg and later largely kept his vow to retreat "into the security of silence...
QUOTE: "I want to rail against wind and tide, kill the whales in the ocean, sweep the whole country to save people from slavery...
...Partisan Review. Thousands of words have been spent discussing the unrepentant old radical; this obituary captures him in three sentences: "He never learned to swim . . . He would immerse his body in the alien element but declined or perhaps feared to move with it. His resistance to swimming with the tide, his mistrust of currents, were his strength...
...National Commission on Excellence in Education released a damning report on the state of public education, Entitled "A Nation at Risk," the report cited "a rising tide of mediocrity" in the nation's classrooms and incited a flood of media attention and finger pointing by and at teachers, administrators, parents and politicians...
Three reports issued in the last five months have condemned the state of higher education claiming that the tide of mediocrity has engulfed colleges and universities as well The reports, issued by prominent educators, were not nitpicking all three spoke in terms of a crisis on America's college campuses. The most recent, issued in February by the Association of American Colleges, charged that the bachelor's degree issued every year to hundreds of thousands of graduates have become meaningless credentials...