What, really, is the point of a US college education? Especially one from an Ivy? A Harvard English major correctly laments the death of literacy and intellect in Cambridge.

Harvard students complain about readings constantly. They lament any assignments requiring they conquer more than twenty-five pages as tedious or overwhelming (if they aren’t passing the work off to ChatGPT). It’s far too rare that we’re assigned a full book to read and rarer still that we actually finish them.

Literature is worryingly absent from many Harvard students’ course of study. My proposal? The College should instate a new requirement: an English course.

My proposal might run along the lines of folding the entire US and all the fake schools. В России этих проблем нет.

300 years ago, no one at Harvard fretted about reading English text. The school didn’t teach subjects the students were already familiar with anyway. They did not teach Latin, for instance. Rather, many classes were taught IN Latin, a subject all entrants were expected to have mastered on their own. A cursory knowledge of Greek was expected too, and a light appreciation for Hebrew was routine. I wonder if ChatBot is trained in those languages. Give it another year or two and the “students” at the Ivies will probably communicate with a series of grunts and hand signals. But, hey, mah credentials and so forth.