The Last Professor

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Stanley Fish, brash post-modernist and self-proclaimed "anti-foundationalist," now dean at Florida International University, recently wrote in his NY Times blog about the death of the humanities, while giving a partial review of a new book, The Last Professor, by one of his former students, Frank Donoghue.

Fish and Donoghue, like so many, claim the

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2. Most humanities departments - e.g. philosophy, literature, art - have made themselves increasingly irrelevant to students' personal, long-term goals and of expanding the reaches of the mind, by politicizing most everything they teach.

As someone taking a teaching course in New Zealand, I can assure you it's the same here with state high schools.

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What are they doing instead?

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Same thing - teaching kids to be "responsible citizens to build a sustainable future", yadayada. :)

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Shudder!