‘I feel like saying: Stop, that’s enough…’
” What I’m trying to bring home is the total absence of intellectual rigour. Students have no idea what it is to think. And what they are taught is absurd.
” In general, the problem boils down to the way English literature is taught. It’s scandalous. Any desire to read that hasn’t been destroyed by popular culture, television, films or computers, literature courses have taken care of! It’s an intellectual tragedy. All these ideological methods represent is careerism and vanity. There are guys going into their first year at university, they haven’t learnt anything in high school, don’t even know when the Second World War was, and they get a professor who gives them Foucault to read! “
Philip Roth, in The Independent.
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