Friday, June 20, 2008

The Importance of a Classical Education

At least in Britain (link):
A Cambridge University student was handcuffed and marched to a police car after launching an extraordinary attack on a spectator at a jelly-wrestling competition.

Minutes earlier, shamed Classics student Nadia Witkowski had been wallowing around in a paddling pool full of red jelly, wrestling fellow scantily-clad students in an attempt to win a £250 prize.

But after being booed by onlookers who judged the Trinity College student to have lost the match, the 23-year-old lashed out at a spectator, punching her on the nose.

Thanks, Ignoto. And (on Ferdinand Mount's autobiography (link)):

[T]his is the story of a man who flitters from one admittedly nepotistic posting to another: society children’s nanny; journalist on the Daily Sketch (his expensive classical education proving itself perfect training for the writing of pithy 250-word tabloid leaders); political columnist for the Spectator; head of Margaret Thatcher’s Policy Unit; before sinking back into what he describes as his easiest job ever, editing the TLS from 1991 to 2002.

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