Dana Gioia: preference

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…Given your General Foods success, why do MBA programs so completely neglect the humanities? Well, it comes from two reasons. One is that the American educational system ignores the humanities, and secondly, our larger culture ignores the humanities. If you go to business school, you are with the most practical people you’ll ever hang around with. I like business school and I like my colleagues at business school because they were people that just wanted to get things done. They were very down to earth, unlike Harvard Graduate School and comparative literature where I’d come from. The problem is they are not people generally with a broad knowledge of history of the humanities and they’re not terribly creative people. Did your poetry converge or diverge with your work at General Foods and this military organization?…

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