"If the universities demolish the humanities by undermining their relevance or their validity, the immediate effect is to promote ignorance and laziness among students; the long term effect is to put into question the very idea of the centrality of college, which people attend for many reasons (alcoholic, athletic, sexual, psychopharmacological, fraternal) but not to learn about Western Civilization." -- W. Kirschberg, from his Salutatorian Address (1972), Churchill College, Cambridge University, the first Cambridge college to admit women as undergraduates.
Thomas Mann: " A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth."
This just in from the good ol' not so great Britain:
https://www.theguardian.com/education/2022/jun/27/sheffield-hallam-university-suspends-low-value-english-literature-degree
Posted by: Martin Stannard | June 27, 2022 at 04:00 PM