In the Humanities, your theory is widely accepted. Eidolon was an online Classics magazine that recently closed up shop. In their version of a 'fail essay', th

In the Humanities, your theory is widely accepted. Eidolon was an online Classics magazine that recently closed up shop. In their version of a 'fail essay', the head editor says the following about formal Classics education: "I’m not going to downplay the extent of the problems we’re facing. In addition to the concerns facing Classics specifically and the humanities more widely, there are also enormous and terrifying problems facing higher education in general. Even before the massive disruption of the Covid-19 pandemic, these problems already looked insurmountable: on one side the student debt crisis, which has financially crippled an entire generation, and on the other side the increasing precarity of the academic workforce has made teaching Classics (and every other discipline in academia, really) a terrible professional prospect. This is not to mention academia’s endemic problems with classism and sexual harassment." The rest of the essay is quite good and you should read it all. But the thesis is the same: Fixing higher education is insurmountable. I want to note the author/editor, because I feel many of the people that read the essay may not have. Her name is Donna Zuckerberg. If that name rings a bell, it should. She is the sister of good ol' Mark Zuckerberg. One of the richest people in the history of mankind. That a woman of such extraordinary and astronomical privilege is saying that things are insurmountable (with experience in fighting against it) should lend even more credence to her words. https://eidolon.pub/my-classics-will-be-intersectional-or-14ed6e0bcd1c https://eidolon.pub/my-classics-will-be-intersectional-or-14...