Phil Christman 的长文从人文学科的本质出发，揭示了一个更深层的危机：功利主义思维正在蚕食教育的灵魂。

The other form of education that our society seems willing to respect, which is little modules and workshops dispensed to well-off professionals, also seems a likely enough vehicle for the survival of some sort of literary culture. Tell a bunch of young men that you can teach them what women really want, and then, when they show up, give them a plateful of nachos, a copy of the collected works of the Brontë sisters, a burned CD of ten or twelve Joan Armatrading songs. Maybe throw in “The Wife of Bath’s Tale.” You’d be doing them a favor. Fans of high culture should welcome vulgarization in a pinch, the same way that devout Sunday school teachers welcome the untutored, inarticulate, undirected faith of a child. People gotta start somewhere.

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Does Teaching Literature and Writing Have a Future?

Learning that one’s job might soon be eliminated by the emergence of an overhyped new technology puts one in good company.