Thursday, June 02, 2016

Uh, kids, the language got its start in, well, England …

… Yale Students Tell English Profs to Stop Teaching English: Too Many White Male Poets - Hit & Run : Reason.com. (Hat tip, Rus Bowden.)

Here's an idea: Refund their tuition and send them home. Suggest to them that college is just not the place for them. Kindergarten might work, though. One wonders what Hildegard von Bingen would make of these people. Not much, I suspect.

4 comments:

  1. I'd be at least as concerned at their understanding of the word "problematic" (if it is theirs and not Reason's). However, I would be tempted to suggest that they could decolonize the program by switching to another major.

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  2. You're kinder than I, George.

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  3. Best headline yet, Frank! (Why Hildegard von Bingen?)

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  4. Am I kinder? The way I'd pronounce "decolonize" might have me up before the dean.

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