Saturday, August 25, 2018
What's Wrong with Higher Education
Guy Davenport and Nicholas Kilmer, "Fragments from a Correspondence," Arion 13.3 (Winter, 2006) 89-130 (at 118, Davenport's words):
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What's wrong with higher education is precisely classes. There shouldn't be any. Gutenberg obsoleted the class at one sweep. Nobody noticed. My problem is that my students seem to enjoy—or tolerate—my lecturing about books, but they won't READ them. If they read books they wouldn't need me, though if they wanted to understand the books better, I could help them, and if they wanted to write books of their own, I could help them.
