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"Becoming an English major means pursuing the most important subject of all—being a human being." http://t.co/An2i9ORpRO via @chronicle

— Jeffrey Cufaude (@jcufaude) August 5, 2013
Something strangely satisfying about reading this while I'm wearing a Professional Organization of English Majors t-shirt.
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There's another appreciation at the Explore blog.
Mike Schultz
Maybe Explore's developing a theme: Language, a great poem in and of itself, is all around us. We live in the lap of enormous wonder, but how rarely do most of us look up and smile in gratitude and pleasure? The English major does that all the time.
Mike Schultz
The New Yorker weighs in: @NewYorker "The reason we need the humanities is because we’re human." Adam Gopnik on the value of an English major: http://t.co/MN1vGksX0n
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