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Shae O.'s avatar
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Such a brilliant piece—increasing visibility of the humanities is so crucial! The humanities is only dead if we allow it to die

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Zack Dover's avatar

I can't deny your observations as a teacher of students, who lives directly within the reality of the academic. But I have found as a student that the teachers I have had in college and university, and including you on Youtube, are very passionate about what they teach. My own passion for literature would not be as nearly as strong without my basic education that I have received thus far. The theory classes I have been in and the creative writing classes as well, have been well-populated with students of some passion. I think education itself is important. Doubly so for the aspiring writer: as Eliot himself said that writer must know the canon!

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