Patrick Kurp today:
“Nobody anymore under the age of fifty has any education whatsoever.”Anecdotal Evidence, "Having Been Taught How to Find Things"
A rhetorical exaggeration, but still sobering. It’s tempting to assume ignorance metastasizes untreatably across generations, that the young are willfully blind to their inheritance. Many are, and have been taught by parents and teachers to scorn learning. But the opposite of ignorance is not a college degree but unconditional curiosity. My essential education occurred not in classrooms but in libraries and wherever I happened to be reading a good book or listening to someone more knowledgeable than I.
The writer quoted above is Guy Davenport in a letter to James Laughlin on this date, April 6, in 1994. ....
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