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Education's Doing Me In

Jesse Walker | 2.3.2009 7:30 AM

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An English professor offers advice to young scholars in the humanities: For the love of God, stay out of graduate school.

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Books Editor Jesse Walker is the author of Rebels on the Air and The United States of Paranoia.

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