The Tolkien Template - Carrying on the torch of mythology and folklore

[Child of the 7th Age]

We seem to have two discussions running here. Please excuse me for coming into the middle of this and referring back to Littlemanpoet, Greyhavener and Cudae's posts.

I agree with Greyhavener and Cudae. It is as much a matter of will and perspective as access to knowledge. Yes, education is certainly more widespread than ever. My father was a factory worker in Detroit, and I went on to scramble my way through to a doctorate in history. But I still have reservations about the kind of education that is accessible to us today. Cudae has made this point better than I ever could:

Wonderful, is it not, that so many of the programs that promote knowledge of kinds other than computers, math, and science are demolished today because of our technological society?

Littlemanpoet, I think I have strong personal feelings about this because I was on the losing end of battles in both history departments and library book funding committees when I tried to protect the scanty funds earmarked for humanities and the classics, only to see them siphoned off into projects of dubious benefit whose only advantage was that of being glitzy and 'modern."