I didn’t say people don’t care about learning, I said that overwhelmingly they don’t. There is a tiny minority’s who value learning for its own sake. They are m

I didn’t say people don’t care about learning, I said that overwhelmingly they don’t. There is a tiny minority’s who value learning for its own sake. They are most of the 4% who complete MOOCs with neither entrance criteria nor certification. They are the people who read complex works of literature, in whatever genre, outside an educational context. They’re the people who don’t just occasionally go to an art gallery but can speak knowledgeably about influences, styles and periods. They’re nerds of whatever persuasion. Normal people work on their three hours of tv a day, nerds learn about Nabokov or the Assyrians or decide that it would be better to work through a modern introduction to algebra than Euclid for fun.