[lbo-talk] the view from capital

[Carrol Cox]

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.

Carrol