Oh yeah, reading literature out of context, that sounds like a great idea! Let's do it by candlelight while we are at it, and write our papers with quill pens! Then we will TRULY learn.
Idiots. |
I have a Ph.D. in psychology, which is not nearly as bad as the humanities has become, and have taught in universities. I am also a liberal. I can tell you that in academia, the type of environment the OP is concerned about is characterized by the opposite of tolerance and freedom of expression. |
Interesting. A year ago, if a book was in a public library shelf but not in schools it was considered banned! |
NP. Publish or perish - so it turns out that in the hard and soft sciences, publish or perish has lead to near-universal unrepeatable, unreplicable experiments and falsified data. Sounds like OP has the right idea. But |
This response is a huge part of the problem. We live in the USA. Our culture, politics, customs, etc. are products of the Western World. There are undoubtedly fantastic works of literature in China and India (for example) that have been hugely influential in Asia. But regardless of your feelings, they’re not relevant here. Furthermore, stating that authors like Shakespeare and Dickens “have value” does not mean they are the ONLY authors who have value. What are you even talking about? |
What century are you writing from? How did you figure out time travel? |
+ 1. Lol |
Villanova, Assumption, Providence College |
True |
That poster was just stating facts. No time travel involved. |
My goodness, these responses are so telling. Such a lack of intellectual curiosity, lack of openness to views/experiences other than yours. |
The US is a western society. |
So my kid got into UC Davis for American Studies. I saw that the transfer admit rate to Berkeley in American Studies was 50% and extrapolated that DC’s odds would be good as a freshman in that major. (They don’t publish admit rates by major for Freshmen). DC’s stats weren’t good enough for Cal but were good enough for Davis. DC was admitted to that school for American Studies. I went over to the department page, and my God, DC is switching his major to history. Here are some of the faculty areas of study in American History: “maps racialized queer and disability histories of white social nonconformity across the rural US, from the 1910s to the 1990s,” “ Recuperating radical left articulations of legal lynching as a form of class warfare, the book theorizes lynching photographs as moving images that illuminate the constitutive relationship of racial terror to global capitalism,” “ research has focused primarily on the radical imaginations and deferred dreams of social movements that become entangled with the politics of institutionalization and funding.” I’m not paying for DC to get indoctrinated by these whack jobs.
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._John%27s_College_(Annapolis/Santa_Fe) This is what you're looking for. Lots of dead white men. |
"Western" = more than two or three countries. |