You know those "useless Humanities" articles that come out all the time?

I'm amused by this ad for a U of C alumni event:
Dinner & Lecture: "Education and Utopia" with Hanna Gray
Tuesday, June 30
Debates over education tend to involve differing views not simply of the curriculum but of the ultimate purposes and futures for which students are to be educated. Those goals often describe a utopian model, one generally employed as a critique of the present state of education and culture. Finally, such recurrent controversies continue, as they have in the past, to center on the question of the liberal arts and the value of a liberal education. And, as always, they begin from a concern that the sustenance of this value is seriously threatened by contemporary trends and priorities. Join fellow alumni at the Hanover Inn, 2 South Main Street, for this timely and engaging discussion.

You can just hear how sick and tired the copywriter is of this same old same old debate.
I must admit a bit of pride and a lot of amusemement to think this is likely to be something U of Cers will be discussing for generations to come, kind of the way people now lament that people don't read enough, or don't read the right things enough...

Beni