On a brief note...
I just read the review of "This Is Not Ivy League", the sordid tale of one woman's pitiful decision to leave the lively comforts of Seattle in 1969 and join a small-town college in Montana (Northern Montana). Her happy life spiraled down to drinking, debauchery, failed marriages and depression. Oh my. All because she pondered whether she was "too good" to settle for a secretarial job..."this was 1969, after all." Once again, the Women's Lib Movement backfires.
What really got me was this: "[The students] cared little about ‘education’ in the sense that most of us understood the word, but rather were looking for training in skills that would help them find jobs. They sat sullenly in the precollege composition classes … and wondered why they had to take English."
Er....that...describes...most freshman nowadays.
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