Pure gold.
Wrote James Marriott in his blog Cultural Capital:
YouTube is now second only to the BBC as the most popular broadcaster in the U.K.
I often write disparagingly about the modern internet's inexorable slide towards video but I also have to (grudgingly) concede that I have learned an awful lot on YouTube over the years.
In my teens it helped introduce me to poetry, philosophy, music, and art.
I thought I would make a list of videos which form a kind of curriculum in the humanities (and a tiny bit in the sciences).
This list is partial and biased towards my own interests.
I'm sure I've missed many things (I'm not into animal documentaries but there must be one of those good David Attenborough-style things with baboons etc. somewhere) so please send me your favourite educational YouTube videos in the comments.
Or my version of one.
I hated Civilisation, and I hated Kenneth Clark. He was a detestable, arrogant fool. The only thing good about the series was that it disgusted physicists so much that they spurred Jacob Bronowski to make The Ascent of Man. The Ascent of Man transcended the television medium. Alone it justifies television.
ReplyDeleteBut Joe, most of your videos are animal documentaries!
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