i remember wolff talking about how all his university work was written using marxist theory, and that he did so well in uni because his economics professors had never read marx. it wasn’t mere avoidance, it was outright ignorance.
i have an a level in history and didn’t learn about anything like this until well after i left school. in my experience, pretty much all of what i’d consider a “meaningful” historical education has been self administered.
for a moment there i thought you said komm, süßes kreuz and was like “shit yeah actually that sounds like a fuckin great idea, sit down with a bottle of rum, jacobs’, gardener’s, and harnoncourt’s st. matthew passions and really ring in the collapse of the american empire!”
chastising people for being “childlike” when adulthood for most people has been an abusive, confusing nightmare of landlords and bosses and debt and meaningless work and governments who don’t give a fuck about them.
Oh, our Champion of Ash, welcome home. This pilgrim, with a debt in death, hardly deserves to behold this divine flame. And I never would have, had you not taken me into your service. I thank you dearly for this... And assure you of my leal service.
i’m almost certain that he talks about his educational background at length in this interview with yer uncle yanis: https://youtu.be/RhFw-s5IUT4