A young lady who has just completed her Eng Lit degree told Bradley the longest book she's read was The DeVinci Code.
Is it really on the curriculum or would she have read it for simple entertainment?
Q1: what is the purpose of higher education?
Q2: what benefits accrue to its recipents?
Q3: how are the people who are paying for this young lady's "education" going to be compensated apart from vague feelings of doing good?
Simple entertainment probably (although it's not that good - Dan Brown's best book is "Deception Point"). But for an Eng Lit student not to have read a longer book than The Da Vinci Code , e.g. Anna Karenina or Bleak House, is pretty poor.
When asked the longest book she had read, she did say not sure it could have been It Stephen King or The DeVinci Code Dan Brown. I took it she just meant for here own pleasure as she did like horror.
I didn't see the programme, I don't know the young woman , I have no clue what her ambitions in life are and what qualifications she may need to obtain that employment.
However bear in mind some of the greatest brains this World has ever had have no doubt read pulp fiction novels, played computer games and generally wasted their spare time having fun.
I would call no one a moron without knowing a damn lot about them, but am getting very close to it.
Separate the luvvy feely aspects of the argument from practicalities, Mamya. It is costing a lot of money to educate the young lady. If she benefits then good. If the Provisioner's benefit then good. If neither benefits what then? Money down the drain. Plenty more in the Oliver Twist queue with outstretched arms and begging bowls.
Could Carl Gustav really have believed that Malory's Arthurian tales were nothing more than thinly veiled accounts of the seach for a bit of how's you father?
What would he have read into accounts of courtly love?
who can say, sandyRoe? What about those stories that the only way to tame a unicorn was for a virtuous maiden to let him lie with his horn in her lap? What about all those hunting manuals with instructions on how to catch "coney" and "hare"?