And to chuck something else into the mix, there is a certain anti-intellectual prejudice here that makes a couple key assumptions:
1. That grad school is all about learning seriously abstruse $#!t. If only! It's generally relatively narrow professional training, not Smart School--which a liberal arts education is kind of supposed to be, but... don't get me started.
2. That art shouldn't be mind-expanding. One generally learns, in part, because one wants to comprehend something, whether through practice, looking something up on one's own, or non-compulsory education. No one's making you read anything, but if you limit yourself to what you already know and can thus "comprehend," you'll never learn anything. Eggplant, whiskey, Ezra Pound, and industrial music were all acquired tastes for me at various points in my life. I'm glad I acquired them.
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