[Marxism] Fwd: Re "the whole Harvard mystique"

[Louis Proyect <lnp3@xxxxxxxxx>]

> Louis,
>
> I just caught your Marxism list post "a Dave Van Ronk joke" and was
> reminded of Henry David Thoreau's take on Harvard, i.e.:  "[Thoreau] was
> never happy about the teaching methods used at Harvard -- Ralph Waldo
> Emerson is supposed to have remarked that most of the branches of learning
> were taught at Harvard, and Thoreau to have replied, 'Yes, indeed, all the
> branches and none of the roots.'"
> <http://www.thoreau.niu.edu/thoreau_life.html>
>
> Best,
>
> Carl


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