Bill Pannapacker, one of my former professors at Hope, goes on WNYC’s Brian Lehrer Show to warn you about doing 8-10 in a Ph.D.-Humanities program.

“I think that students who are not expecting to become professors at the end of the process, who are going there for intellectual reasons, and who are prepared not to be seduced by the idea that academe has a monopoly on the life of the mind…are not going to be beholden to the institution, they can pursue their own best interests, and when they are ready to do something else, they won’t be imprisoned by it, hopefully.  But there is always the danger that students who are in graduate school will become socialized into believing that life outside of academe means failure.”

I’ll show you the life of the mind.

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