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Stephen King was an English major. Word art, literature, helps people advance cognitively. English is an unowned cultivated intellectual property that greases
by BingoAhoy 5y ago
Stephen King was an English major. Word art, literature, helps people advance cognitively.
English is an unowned cultivated intellectual property that greases communication which greases all other human endeavors. I think its underappreciated.
Not all education needs to advance the frontier, much of it is about maintaining what we've already claimed and passing it on to new generations.
- ryan93 5y agoWhat kind of argument is that. For every 10,000 English majors there is maybe 1 Stephen king or anything close to ti
- beepbooptheory 5y agoI think it's a quite good argument, and at very least one that doesn't rely on colleges literally producing a larger number Stephen Kings, as if something about the quantity produced could matter at all (really curious how you even arrived at that counter).
- ryan93 5y agoIt’s not a good argument. Zero good writers learned it in college.
- tomrod 5y agoIf one did, do you realize your argument fails? http://airshipdaily.com/blog/05232014-authors-teachers http://airshipdaily.com/blog/05232014-authors-teachers
- ryan93 5y agoNo. All learned to write by sitting down by themselves and writing.
- beepbooptheory 5y agoRegardless, creative writing is but a subset of the discipline of English, if not an entirely separate department in a lot of schools. Most of it is studying what has already been written, making connections and forming articulations that understand our human world. If you see the study of any humanities at all as only possibly measured by what success you gain in the domains of social status or notoriety, then I wonder if you apply that same rubric to STEM fields? Please be mindful that just because you dont know about something, doesn't make it dumb, bad, or pointless. At the very least, don't wave away so simply an entire discipline!
- anotherman554 5y agoFuture authors don't need a college program to "...study what has already been written, making connections and forming articulations that understand our human world". They can do this by reading books. There are even books of criticism that help you learn about other books.
- beepbooptheory 5y agoIf you're comprehension of my reply is any indication, you could of probably used more English classes.
- anotherman554 5y agoOr could indicate you need to work on your communication skills...