Pursuant to last Thursday’s post about Peter Thiel’s plan to destroy higher education, I offer this: simultaneously the funniest and the most depressing commentary on academia I’ve seen in ages.
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This video might, in fact, look familiar, because it’s gone viral on Facebook and on several of the blogs I follow. (Quick plug: Though I’d seen it on the statuses of many of my grad-school friends and former professors, I decided to post this after reading the comments on my friend Lindsy’s blog, To Be an Electric Telegraph.)
To be perfectly honest, though, despite all the serious/tragicomic dialogue about higher ed, I think my favorite exchange was this one:
Professor: “Harold Bloom is a misogynistic narcissist.”
Student: “Harold Bloom informs much of my own scholarship.”
Professor: “You cannot seriously be this stupid.”
Hee hee! (Sorry, Harold Bloom!)
Samuel Snoek-Brown 