Re: the view from capital
On Sep 12, 2006, at 6:19 PM, Carrol Cox wrote:
Andre Gorz back in the ’60s (when he was still a marxist) passes on a delightful anecdote. He was visiting one of the elite technological schools in France. At one point he raised the question, “What do the students learn her that they couldn’t learn on the job?” Answer, after some thought, calculus. Next questio, “Would they use calculua in the jobs they were training for?” No.
Learning classical languages probably played a similar role in some
19th century occupations.
Another academic against education…