[lbo-talk] the view from capital

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Tue Sep 12 15:36:15 PDT 2006


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...



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