"If having all love of learning drained from you and being forced to sit through years of boring, pointless classes in order to pass a few exams is a good education, then we don't want it". Some parents fear the review could result in guidelines about how children are taught at home.
Later, when my daughter called, on her way to now seemingly pointless classes in "environmental studies" at her university, and cried into the phone- I joined her, too.
I have different views about graduate level education because I am taking classes that actually pertain to my field; whereas during undergrad, I was forced to waste precious time on pointless classes about theories I'll never use).
Because there are poor teachers, pointless classes, and unsuccessful programs out there, we need some way of evaluating what we are doing, rewarding and expanding the best approaches, and weeding out or improving the worst.
We have been told often enough that to disapprove of gangsta rap is pointless, middle class, and smug, like disapproving of modern urban life itself.
In four two-hour evening sessions, he provided an incisive, moving narrative of Parker's incandescent career, but he could also be oppressive, not least with his pointless occasional class "surveys".
David Gibbs London SW4 I have to take issue with Janet Street-Porter's writing-off of gap year voluntary work abroad as a pointless middle-class pastime (13 June).
"Le Beau Serge" ("Handsome Serge") is an acerbic study of a smug Parisian, François Jean-Claude Brialyy), who returns to the provincial village of his youth and tries to rescue his former best friend, Serge (Gérard Blain), from a seemingly pointless, working-class existence.
Obviously I'm the weirdo that turned up to the pointless 'Advanced Research Skills' class last term with a plethora of notes and an over-achieving attitude that should be kept in Pandora's Box.
Where Storr is concerned with the precarity of modern-day work, Knight is preoccupied with the tedium endured by the office-bound class: pointless morning meetings, irritating group projects.
