[Vwoolf] Meet the parents who won’t let their children study literature--what would Woolf say, eh?
Stuart N. Clarke
stuart.n.clarke at btinternet.com
Tue Sep 6 05:42:41 EDT 2016
Even the eng. lit. students *use* Virginia Woolf. When I was a student in,
say,
1968, and if I had known that Leonard Woolf opened his garden to the public
for
charity, I would have tried to find out how to get to Rodmell from London
SW20, and made the trip, and – d’you know? – it wouldn’t have been any *use*
to me at all. Perhaps that’s why I got a crap degree.
"You might not expect college freshmen to understand that careers don’t
proceed in straight lines, but surely their parents ought to." How
wonderfully middle-class! My mother didn't even know what a mezzanine was
or what anticlockwise meant or how to read a bus timetable: "All this fuss
about education. I didn't have any, and I've got through life just the
same. ... But I will say this for Stuart -- whatever he's achieved, he's
done it without any help from us. *We* couldn't help him with his
homework."
Stuart
-----Original Message-----
From: K L Levenback
Sent: Sunday, September 4, 2016 12:42 PM
To: vwoolf at lists.osu.edu
Subject: [Vwoolf] Meet the parents who won’t let their children study
literature--what would Woolf say, eh?
I thought you might like this link from The Washington Post's iPad app:
Meet the parents who won’t let their children study literature
http://wapo.st/2cj4EYu
Sent from my iPad
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