The Technology of Language

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  • Loren PQ Baybrook Lawrence University

Abstract

Content Preview Since the first grade, students are asked to master two core subjects: math and language, which, in the case of U.S. schools, means “English.” No other subjects get this priority. Why? Sure, college majors in math and English (having taken the other courses required for entering medical school) consistently score the highest on the MCAT, but the point of this dual “core” is not to make physicians (or lawyers or poets or engineers). The point is to make valuable citizens. Whatever its private rewards, requiring math and English reflects an unapologetically public goal, not that of making you more gloriously “you,” but that of making you more useful to others.

Author Biography

Loren PQ Baybrook, Lawrence University

Editor, Film & History: An Interdisciplinary Journal Visiting Professor of Film Studies Lawrence University, Memorial Hall, B5 711 East Boldt Way Appleton, WI 54911

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Published

2017-02-23

Issue

Vol. 45 No. 2 (2016): Summer/Fall 2016

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Columns

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