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...