I do not think of myself as a teacher of foreign languages or have a great interest in this but I am a zealot if required. This is my manifesto. 1. The custom of presenting all grammar in the first year, and reviewing it in the second, is incoherent and must be revised. 2. The … More Manifesto
The correct academic advice is that you should decide what you want to do and concentrate on that, and insist on conversing about that, as opposed to get caught by mentoring and advice. The problem with academic advice, normally, is that it is given by people who believe themselves infinitely superior to those they are … More Yet, still, more on academic advice
If we look at the politics of the European neoliberal ruling class, we see that they are doing exactly this: in some countries (such as Italy) they are reducing the financing for school and for research, privatizing public schools, and provoking a large-scale de-scholarization that has already begun showing signs of producing widespread ignorance and … More What is happening
On the way home from the prison I visited my old students, who are now teaching assistants, and met their new friends. They are now teaching some of the same classes I am and we discussed our difficulties. One student, a Ph.D. candidate in Comparative Literature from Mendoza, Argentina, was very grateful, as I was … More On foreign language teaching
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The tradition of the oppressed teaches us that the “emergency situation” in which we live is the rule. We must arrive at a concept of history which corresponds to this. Then it will become clear that the task before us is the introduction of a real state of emergency; and our position in the struggle … More Afsnit otte
One hundred fifty years. “Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation or any nation so conceived and so dedicated can … More 19 November 1863
Look. My research interests are not out of date at all and there are grants in my home town for these — although I think they are limited to UC faculty. Still, I think I should find a way to go hang out in S.B. sometime. The next time I go to San Francisco, I … More Things I could do with a good vita
This conversation is surely worth watching. Axé.
#OccupyHE. Axé.
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