"I am adamantly opposed to undergraduates majoring in playwriting, acting, design or directing, or in any of the arts except perhaps dance and instrumental music (both of which require early rigorous training). Bachelor degrees should be acquired in the liberal arts and sciences, not in vocational training."(NYTimes.com | Readers' Opinions | Tony Kushner)

:: note :: . . . have always felt & counseled students this way but have never seen it written before by a respected 'professional', 'successful' vocational worker . . .

"No wonder, then, that he recalled, in his 1989 commencement address at Brandeis University, a member of the class of 1959, the clown prince and media apache Abbie Hoffman, who had thrown fistfuls of dollars down on the heads of the brokering beasts on the pampas of the Stock Exchange[~] who had done his shamanistic best to levitate the Pentagon:"

"He got people terribly mad, Abbie, and for very good reason: He was insufferable. He was insufferable because he held the mirror up so that we saw ourselves. That's just what the biblical prophets did, they operated in just that way. Wasn't it Isaiah who walked abroad naked to prophesy the deportation of the Jews? And wasn't it Jeremiah who wore a yoke around his neck to prophesy their slavery? "(TheNewYork Review of Books |E. L. Doctorow | The Prophet By John Leonard)