Didn't realize C.S. Lewis held any animosity towards the Morris!
A special report on entrepreneurship
An idea whose time has come
Mar 12th 2009
>From The Economist print edition
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Britainbs Oxford University used to nurture one of the longest traditions of
anti-entrepreneurial prejudice in the world. The dons valued b gentlemanlyb
subjects such as classics or philosophy over anything that smacked of
b utilityb . (b He gets degrees in making jam/at Liverpool and Birmingham,b
went one popular ditty.) The students dreamed of careers in the civil service
or the law rather than business, still less entrepreneurship. b How I hate that
man,b was the writer C.S. Lewisbs tart comment on Lord Nuffield, his citybs
greatest entrepreneur and his universitybs most generous benefactor.
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