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"Michael Malone, author and teacher, tells of inviting a Silicon Valley high-tech entrepreneur to talk to his college writing class. When he told his visitor to go easy on the downside of life for an English major in a tech-savvy world, the Silicon Valley entrepreneur replied: “English majors are exactly the people I’m looking for.” The battleground, writes Malone in The Wall Street Journal, has shifted from engineering to storytelling as the means of translating an idea into imagined reality. The study of fine writing and the arts opens the mind to a larger nature, to quality measured not by big data, but by big ideas." phillyburbs/news/local/courier_times_news/opinion/oped/high-tech-and-humanity-in-search-of-english-majors/article_fd428aff-6dee-5114-bdf3-e15f31433c5f.html
Posted on: Tue, 30 Jul 2013 15:34:25 +0000

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