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z2005-11-30- Walker Thorpe Humanities Bad
It may look like a crisis, but it's only the end of an illusion.

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last edited by BillSeitz on Sep 20, 2008 6:54 am

on [Peter Thorpe]'s Why Literature Is Bad for You ISBN:0-88229-745-7 about why the are bad for you. Here's a book written by a professor of English Literature who argues that immersion in the humanities manufactures such people, wrecking the minds and often the lives of those who would have otherwise made well-balanced and successful accountants, scientists, physicians, engineers, or members of other productive professions.


 




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