TOM UTLEY: No wonder fewer students want arts degrees when Lefty lecturers make them such a waste of time

UK Daily Mail ^ | February 4, 2021 | Tom Utley

[C19fan]

My brilliant late father, who would have turned 100 this week had he lived, was fond of delivering mock-pompous Johnsonian pronouncements (no, not that Johnson; I mean Samuel, of dictionary fame).

Three in particular stick in my mind. The first was his reaction when I passed my 11-Plus, after I told him that school friends who'd been similarly successful in the exam had been promised bicycles by their parents.

'Bicycles, indeed!' he spluttered. 'I'd have thrashed you, my boy, if you'd failed!'

[C19fan]

I thought English classes was bad enough when as a student with no life experience I had to somehow interpret the text. Now it would be insufferable with these Woke professors. Thankfully after some life experience and maturing I love Victorian novel reading.

[kvanbrunt2]

Art History is probably a worse subject than English lit but here is an interesting book i read in College. He was friends with Francis Shaeffer and Some of his ideas seems to have rubbed off on him.

https://www.amazon.com/Modern-Art-Death-Culture-Rookmaaker/dp/0891077995

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Too many arts students are being taught what to think, not how.

A liberal arts degree is a résumé stain. It is worse than worthless, it shows that the holder wasted four, or more, years, acquiring attitude and learning nothing useful.

Here is a liberal arts professor with something worth listening to.

[PUGACHEV]

I attended a southern college and particularly remember one exchange between a student and. Lit professor: “Mr. G., what did you think of The Canterberry Tails?” she asked.”I thought they were right fine, Mrs. Perkins”, he answered. “Yes, Mr. G., they are right fine” she replied. And that’s as far as it went.

[Lovely-Day-For-A-Guinness]

My son attends a notable New England engineering school.

He has to take some non-engineering courses and chose world politics.

First day of class, within minutes of its start, the black female 'teacher' asked each of the students the pronouns they prefer.

He dropped the class immediately and then signed up for one on economics.

I think I may have raised him correctly. So far........

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Up in the snooty North we read the Canterbury Tales (prolog, actually, in translation) in Catholic High School. I had the worst teacher of my life as junior year English teacher, and the class broke out in general disorder. It was the only class I ever cut in high school I hated it so much. My English Teacher took the NYC transit authority bus in to school, the same one I took. I always made sure I was on the other end of the bus from him.

I had a diminutive Jewish professor for my English literature survey course in college, we covered the Canterbury Tales, in Middle English, and I absolutely loved it! We covered the prologue and one of the tales. The Wife of Bath’s tale, iirc.

[T.B. Yoits]

Educators, as highlighted in from Pink Floyd's "The Wall"

but at home at night their fat and psychopathic wives thrashed them within inches of their lives...

[Organic Panic]

Coffee tastes better when served by someone who owes 100,000 dollars in debt for an arts degree.

Joke’s on ke though. I will end up paying for that debt through taxes.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Joke’s on ke though.

I will respect your choice of pronouns.