26 April 2010
Everyday Scholarship
Should you earn college credit for foxtrot?
We seem to be sliding down a slippery slope. Colleges are becoming finishing scbools.
It used to be that the skills of daily life were taught at home. Good dancers or cooks learned from their parents, neighbors or professional instructors. . . or on the street corner, as Bruce Eric Kaplan said in his April 19, 2010, New Yorker cartoon caption: “I have to take him to his class for things kids used to learn on their own.”
Should you earn college credit for foxtrot?
We seem to be sliding down a slippery slope. Colleges are becoming finishing scbools.
It used to be that the skills of daily life were taught at home. Good dancers or cooks learned from their parents, neighbors or professional instructors. . . or on the street corner, as Bruce Eric Kaplan said in his April 19, 2010, New Yorker cartoon caption: “I have to take him to his class for things kids used to learn on their own.”
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