From pdesr007@uottawa.ca Sun Dec 31 08:12:51 2000 Received: from mxu3.u.washington.edu (mxu3.u.washington.edu [140.142.33.7]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW00.05/8.9.3+UW00.12) with ESMTP id IAA29746 for ; Sun, 31 Dec 2000 08:12:50 -0800 Received: from mail1.rdc3.on.home.com (mail1.rdc3.on.home.com [24.2.9.40]) by mxu3.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW00.02/8.9.3+UW99.09) with ESMTP id IAA24677 for ; Sun, 31 Dec 2000 08:12:50 -0800 Received: from [192.168.0.6] ([24.42.11.43]) by mail1.rdc3.on.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.00 201-229-121) with ESMTP id <20001231161246.GPSD22123.mail1.rdc3.on.home.com@[192.168.0.6]> for ; Sun, 31 Dec 2000 08:12:46 -0800 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: pdesr007@mailbox.uottawa.ca Message-Id: In-Reply-To: References: Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2000 11:12:44 -0500 To: classics@u.washington.edu From: "Pierre Desrochers" Subject: Re: What About Latin and the Working Class? Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" ; format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Elias J Theodoracopoulos scripsit: >On Sat, 30 Dec 2000, Elizabeth Vandiver wrote: > >> I now think there is a *huge* amount of interest in Classics among >> "working class" people (and others)--academia just isn't doing a >>very good job of > > identifying and tapping that interest, in general. > Interesting, I also notice some former students in Engineering, now employed in high-tech firms, taking interest in Classics, and humanities to a greater extent. Compounded by the fact that management tends to look towards those with a more liberal background, and the capacity to write, it make sense for them to take humanities courses. But then, this is just what I have observed. yours.... -- Pierre Desrochers =C9tudiant au second cycle en =E9tudes anciennes D=E9p. des =E9tudes anciennes et de sciences des religions Universit=E9 d'Ottawa M.A. Classics (Cand.) Dept. of Classics and Religious Studies University of Ottawa Web page: http://phrontisterion.uottawa.ca .