April 24, 2009

Graduate School? Socrates Would Approve

To the Editor:

I am glad that I did not read Thomas H. Benton's convincing argument against attending graduate school in the humanities ("Graduate School in the Humanities: Just Don't Go," The Chronicle Careers, January 30) when it was my time to either prolong the leisure and romance of campus life or do something practical like get a job at a financial-services company or marketing firm.

If I had, I would not be a tenured professor of philosophy at a public university, I would

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