English for Language and Linguistics in Higher Education Studies. Course Book + 2 CD (+ Audio CD)

Gender studies, multiculturalism, semiotics, deconstruction, video art, and other such guff, while attractive to the child, as they seem to endorse his БЂњadulthood,БЂ«are in truth, terrifying as his clock ticks on toward the schoolБЂ™s relaxation of its authority, that date on which it will spew the unschooled, confused, skill-less student into a world which, he must know, is uninterested in his capacity for bushwah, and wants to know what he can contribute to the common effort. Consider college education which, in the Liberal Arts, and in the social sciences, or whatever they may be called today, is effectively a waste of money and time, and useless save as that display of leisure and wealth Veblen called БЂњconspicuous consumption.БЂ«A Liberal Arts education is essentially a recognition symbol, which, as such might theoretically facilitate entrance into a higher class, were entrance awarded on the basis solely of that passport; but see the MAs in English bagging groceries. Higher Education is selling an illusion: that the child of the well-to-do need not matriculate into the workforceБЂ”that mastery of a fungible skill is unnecessary.9 It spews him eventually, even after the most attenuated БЂњgraduate study,БЂ«increasingly embraced by the affluent and confusedБЂ”into a marketplace the lessons of which he is at a vast disadvantage to face, let alone master, having (a) waited too long, and (b) taught himself that he need not stoop to consider the practical ...»