Graduate school in the humanities is a trap. It is designed that way. It is structurally based on limiting the options of students and socializing them into believing that it is shameful to abandon ‘the life of the mind.’ That’s why most graduate programs resist reducing the numbers of admitted students or providing them with skills and networks that could enable them to do anything but join the ever-growing ranks of impoverished, demoralized, and damaged graduate students and adjuncts for whom most of academe denies any responsibility.
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Thomas H. Benton, The Big Lie About the ‘Life of the Mind’ (via wnstnlinks)
Wow, great quote. Oh how true it is for me. I guess I’m one of those impoverished, demoralized, and damaged graduates who is wandering the professional wilderness rather than working in the field of my study.
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wnstnlinks) Wow, great quote. Oh how true it...those impoverished, demoralized, and...
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I don’t regret dropping out of college, but this is sad to think about as I had hoped one day, when I was more stable in...
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