ATDTDA (11): Flat Frank, 296-304 #3

[Paul Nightingale]

I don't think it's anti-intellectualism, insofar as 'commonsense' might be
judged superior to 'book-learning'. Dally considers Frank, perhaps,
incomplete when she refers to him as a "Mine-Schooler with his head full of
magnets" (298); but one should bear in mind that she is being deliberately
provocative, as when she calls him Fred.

Perhaps one might associate formal learning (signified by certification)
with 'getting on in the world', incorporation into the power structure,
which is what Frank has rejected.

-----Original Message-----
From: bekah [mailto:bekah0176 at sbcglobal.net] 

Is street-learning more valuable in the book than book learning?   Is 
there a certain whiff of anti-intellectualism going on here in 
various ways?

Bekah