There's a new model, a school called Minerva, where you take four years in a foreign country. You work in small classes, but the classes are all online. There's no library, there's no formal campus per se. I think that is a proper use of the money that's going down the tubes at the major universities right now. For parents to think, you know, for profit, young people a lot, you have to be exposed to the world. Right now, our primary school education is absolutely appalling.
Camille Paglia joins Tyler Cowen for a conversation on the brilliance of Bowie, lamb vindaloo, her lifestyle of observation, why writers need real jobs, Star Wars, Harold Bloom, Amelia Earhart, Edmund Spenser, Brazil, why she is most definitely not a cultural conservative, and much more.
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