[Vwoolf] Meet the parents who won’t let their children study literature--what would Woolf say, eh?

[Stuart N. Clarke]

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



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