A reader has asked whether she should return to college after dropping out several years ago. She’s still young, not yet thirty. Advice is dangerous stuff. If taken and the outcome is unhappy, the advice-giver has set himself up for resentment and blame. Rather, I urged my reader to examine her motives and expectations. She’s smart and better-read than most of her contemporaries, so a typical college curriculum could crush her.
Unsourced paraphrased quote in the linked article: "William's masterpiece, 'Paterson', may be the only wholly accessible architectonic form in our literature. Olson's Maximus and Zukofsky's 'A' are too symbolically and verbally complex, respectively, to command large audiences especially in an age when a college degree is becoming a certificate of illiteracy.” https://books.google.com/books?id=3NlHEbnP_AYC&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&lpg=PA317
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