I spent the afternoon reading Langston Hughes poems (for a paper I have to write in two weeks), and wow. He’s apparently pretty Communist. Interesting. But then there’s this great anti-academic one (Hughes went to Columbia for a while, but hated it):<\/p>\n
\nPh.D.<\/b><\/p>\n
He never was a silly little boy
\nWho whispered in the class or threw spit balls,
\nOr pulled the hair of silly little girls,
\nOr disobeyed in any way the laws
\nThat made the school a place of decent order
\nWhere books were read and sums were proven true
\nAnd paper maps that showed the land and water
\nWere held up as the real wide world to you.
\nAlways, he kept his eyes upon his books:
\nAnd now he has grown to be a man
\nHe is surprised that everywhere he looks
\nLife rolls in waves he cannot understand,
\nAnd all the human world is vast and strange–
\nAnd quite beyond his Ph.D.’s small range.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\nRemember when I used to be all about academia? Heh. Don’t get me wrong, education is great, and I love it, and I love school, and I love taking classes…but there’s a limit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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