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

[kelber at mindspring.com]

Kit's disgust with Yale as "no more really than a sort of high-hat technical school for learning to be a Yale Man, if not indeed a factory for turning out Yale Men, gentlemen but no scholars except inadvertently, and that was about it." (p. 318)  Yale being, of course, the place that turned out George Bush, among other non-intellectuals (I'd have to include myself).  This isn't anti-intellectualism, it's a plea for intellectualism.  Kit's more in his element when he gets to Gottingen.

Laura
Yale '79

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>From: bekah <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?