[lbo-talk] Terry Eagleton on "The death of universities"

[Wojtek S]

Joanna: "But rather than argue about when our notion of the "humanities" was
shaped, I'd rather point out that this is a great door opening for the left:
to create and make available material for those who want to understand this
subject matter.  THe CP took this kind of thing very seriously, making a lot
of this stuff accessible and comprehensible to the masses as part of a
general literacy/education campaign."

[WS:]  This would work only if it were a supply-side restriction (which was
likely the case when the CP launched the said effort.)  But today, I am
afraid, this is mainly the demand side restriction  - i.e. the utter lack of
interest in studying these subjects among students.  As they say,  "You can
bring a horse to water, but you cannot make him drink.  You can bring a
whore to culture, but you cannot make her think."

Wojtek