Songs For The Struggling Artist

At my college reunion, I learned a lot of history I’d never heard, or thought about before. I had a vague sense of the origins of the college but I hadn’t really ever thought them through. The fact is, the college was created to educate privileged young women. Formed in 1926, it was designed for a population of gentility. It was not designed to get women jobs.In thinking about this, and how financially insecure I have always been, and how many of my peers describe themselves as underemployed, I started to realize that our extraordinary educations were initially designed, way back when, not to help us find meaningful work, but to make excellent conversation.To keep reading Fine Young Ladies visit the Songs for the Struggling Artist blog.This is Episode 455Song: A Little Less Conversation Image is of Sarah Lawrence painted by Violet Oakley To support this podcast:Give it 5 stars in Apple Podcasts. Write a nice review!Rate it wherever you listen or via: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠