The Master of Fakeness: How Higher Education Exploits Students to Bring in Cash Flow
One of the best things I wrote was my master’s thesis on D.H. Lawrence back in 2000. While writing and revising it, I almost gave up. That was the point, though. The whole point of mastering something is to prove that you are good at it, right? And this is where the MFA or MA in creative writing is a total fake. Such has been allowed by our accreditation agencies, but that is a whole other story.
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