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

[Sarah M. Hall]

Before I studied English Lit in the 1980s, I had to 'go and see' my father in order to persuade him that it was worthwhile. He thought I should have done business studies. If I had, I would probably be richer in montary terms (although not necessarily), but not in any other terms.
Woolf, of course would say 'teach yourself': 'Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt, that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.' But her £500 a year would have to have a couple of zeros on it.


      From: Stuart N. Clarke <stuart.n.clarke at btinternet.com>
 To: vwoolf at lists.osu.edu 
 Sent: Tuesday, 6 September 2016, 10:42
 Subject: [Vwoolf] Meet the parents who won’t let their children study literature--what would Woolf say, eh?
   
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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