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The article is a) way too long. He needs some serious editing and -- it's irrelevant.

Seriously dude if you wrote 8000 words to discuss how you can't talk to a plumber you need therapy.
To begin with -- that's a cultural stereotype. Plumbers can be well-paid. Second of all: TALKING TO PLUMBERS IS OVERRATED.
What does he think it's like 1940 and he's learning to converse with the "salt of the earth"?
I mean, really.
What a gasbag. Figures that a dude like that has an entire column at American Scholar.
I admit I skimmed because -- no editing!

The article is a) way too long. He needs some serious editing and -- it's irrelevant.

Seriously dude if you wrote 8000 words to discuss how you can't talk to a plumber you need therapy.
To begin with -- that's a cultural stereotype. Plumbers can be well-paid. Second of all: TALKING TO PLUMBERS IS OVERRATED.
What does he think it's like 1940 and he's learning to converse with the "salt of the earth"?
I mean, really.
What a gasbag. Figures that a dude like that has an entire column at American Scholar.
I admit I skimmed because -- no editing!

That's true & I understand that but that is not the same argument. You are talking about pursuing athletics professionally which everyone knows -- has to be done from a very young age to be successful.
That's like saying "I want t to become a ballerina or an astronaut at 34." Um, no you're not. But his argument in the article is not about being basically crazy -- it's about his condescending view towards undergrad students.
How can a professor in good conscience try to quash a young person's love of learning and reading? It's despicable. He shouldn't have a column.

This gets down to values. Being in the arts my entire life -- I've heard this argument lobbed at me repeatedly. It always irritated me. Do you think that college should be a time to explore yourself, your interests, your values? To learn to think critically and learn what it means to think, to become educated? Or do you think it's just about following a track to get a job?
I think it's a big mistake -- I don't know how this guy has a column -- to try to tell students that they should all become doctors and lawyers. Or what? I really don't understand what he's advocating. And anyway, he's not even talking about the arts -- he's talking about academia. Which, to me, is even more bizarre.
Has he looked around at the world?
It's very difficult in the workforce. Corporate America isn't the answer to a fulfilling life, imho.
Again: what's the alternative? We should all go get our MBAs? There is no guarantee in that either.
We are moving as a society where it's the haves and have-nots.
There are the elites and the non-elites. It used to be apparent in the arts -- now I guess it's apparent in academia.
Now college is basically unaffordable.
So many things I took for granted growing up are broken and need fixing.
What's next?
So this guy gets a column to shake his head, tsk tsk tsk and wave his finger at students he looks down upon for what?
Wanting to go to college, loving learning, and wanting to read books?
What's the world coming to?

The article is a) way too long. He needs some serious editing and -- it's irrelevant.

Seriously dude if you wrote 8000 words to discuss how you can't talk to a plumber you need therapy.
To begin with -- that's a cultural stereotype. Plumbers can be well-paid. Second of all: TALKING TO PLUMBERS IS OVERRATED.
What does he think it's like 1940 and he's learning to converse with the "salt of the earth"?
I mean, really.
What a gasbag. Figures that a dude like that has an entire column at American Scholar.
I admit I skimmed because -- no editing!

The article is a) way too long. He needs some serious editing and -- it's irrelevant.

Seriously dude if you wrote 8000 words to discuss how you can't talk to a plumber you need therapy.
To begin with -- that's a cultural stereotype. Plumbers can be well-paid. Second of all: TALKING TO PLUMBERS IS OVERRATED.
What does he think it's like 1940 and he's learning to converse with the "salt of the earth"?
I mean, really.
What a gasbag. Figures that a dude like that has an entire column at American Scholar.
I admit I skimmed because -- no editing!

That's true & I understand that but that is not the same argument. You are talking about pursuing athletics professionally which everyone knows -- has to be done from a very young age to be successful.
That's like saying "I want t to become a ballerina or an astronaut at 34." Um, no you're not. But his argument in the article is not about being basically crazy -- it's about his condescending view towards undergrad students.
How can a professor in good conscience try to quash a young person's love of learning and reading? It's despicable. He shouldn't have a column.

This gets down to values. Being in the arts my entire life -- I've heard this argument lobbed at me repeatedly. It always irritated me. Do you think that college should be a time to explore yourself, your interests, your values? To learn to think critically and learn what it means to think, to become educated? Or do you think it's just about following a track to get a job?
I think it's a big mistake -- I don't know how this guy has a column -- to try to tell students that they should all become doctors and lawyers. Or what? I really don't understand what he's advocating. And anyway, he's not even talking about the arts -- he's talking about academia. Which, to me, is even more bizarre.
Has he looked around at the world?
It's very difficult in the workforce. Corporate America isn't the answer to a fulfilling life, imho.
Again: what's the alternative? We should all go get our MBAs? There is no guarantee in that either.
We are moving as a society where it's the haves and have-nots.
There are the elites and the non-elites. It used to be apparent in the arts -- now I guess it's apparent in academia.
Now college is basically unaffordable.
So many things I took for granted growing up are broken and need fixing.
What's next?
So this guy gets a column to shake his head, tsk tsk tsk and wave his finger at students he looks down upon for what?
Wanting to go to college, loving learning, and wanting to read books?
What's the world coming to?

That's true & I understand that but that is not the same argument. You are talking about pursuing athletics professionally which everyone knows -- has to be done from a very young age to be successful.
That's like saying "I want t to become a ballerina or an astronaut at 34." Um, no you're not. But his argument in the article is not about being basically crazy -- it's about his condescending view towards undergrad students.
How can a professor in good conscience try to quash a young person's love of learning and reading? It's despicable. He shouldn't have a column.

This gets down to values. Being in the arts my entire life -- I've heard this argument lobbed at me repeatedly. It always irritated me. Do you think that college should be a time to explore yourself, your interests, your values? To learn to think critically and learn what it means to think, to become educated? Or do you think it's just about following a track to get a job?
I think it's a big mistake -- I don't know how this guy has a column -- to try to tell students that they should all become doctors and lawyers. Or what? I really don't understand what he's advocating. And anyway, he's not even talking about the arts -- he's talking about academia. Which, to me, is even more bizarre.
Has he looked around at the world?
It's very difficult in the workforce. Corporate America isn't the answer to a fulfilling life, imho.
Again: what's the alternative? We should all go get our MBAs? There is no guarantee in that either.
We are moving as a society where it's the haves and have-nots.
There are the elites and the non-elites. It used to be apparent in the arts -- now I guess it's apparent in academia.
Now college is basically unaffordable.
So many things I took for granted growing up are broken and need fixing.
What's next?
So this guy gets a column to shake his head, tsk tsk tsk and wave his finger at students he looks down upon for what?
Wanting to go to college, loving learning, and wanting to read books?
What's the world coming to?

Does anyone have information on the slant of Harvard's Film studies program? I've heard different things from different people and I know it's relatively new (PhD in 2009).

Does anyone have information on the slant of Harvard's Film studies program? I've heard different things from different people and I know it's relatively new (PhD in 2009).