Liberal vs. Practical Education

Provide for the esoteric, exotic, and impractical in the curriculum; the practical and pedestrian will take care of itself. If it does not, you have not lost much anyway; so I think the impractical things are the most practical and important in the long run. (Herman...

The Unintentional Anteater

Thanks to following a link on a story comment, I discovered this quite interesting piece at Salon, about a fellow who sees ants in his cereal and grabs a handful to munch anyway. Sort of an exuberant omnivorous experience, I suppose, from a writer with quite an...