In Change Magazine, there is an article on the academic industrial complex to read and discuss. The piece begins by showing how the Carnegie Foundation and the AAUP shaped academia in the 20th century. Together, these two entities created a national, mobile professoriate (see also the discussion of Carnegie units and credit hours), a professoriate … More Gary Rhoades
Cleaning and sealing a wooden deck is non trivial, and it is a fallacy that tasks like this one do not require knowledge and skill. All decks should be sealed, no matter what kind of wood they are made of. Mine is made with pressure-treated pine. This wood looks adequate until it ages slightly, at … More Home Maintenance Wednesday: Wooden Decks
Long ago I was reading an essay by Ernesto Sábato on José Ingenieros; I lost both my thread and the book. My notes resemble a poem, but are not yet one. I would like to find and read the essay, return to that barrio in Mexico City, and write the poem. For Ingenieros logic and morality … More Through a Glass, Darkly Wednesday: On Positivism
By the time this post comes up I should, Goddess willing, be home from Brazil and also awake. I think I should make this soup, a recipe sent me from Kuwait by one reader, Anfal. 1/4 cup small, rice-like pasta 1 cup cooked red beans 3T corn oil 1/2 cup unions 1T garlic 1 vegetable … More Soup
It is Twelfth Night, so it is Carnival time. The Phunny Phorty Phellows as well as the new Krewe of Jeanne d’Arc, Maid of New Orleans, roll tonight. From Open Source Food, here is the marzipan-filled King Cake I like. One great Carnival reveler was ORSINO, DUKE OF ILLYRIA: If music be the food of … More Rosca de Reyes
Now I am in a post at Historiann’s, which is an honor. Historiann’s title for my post, part of her feminist series Lessons for Girls, is “Romance Is For Your Pleasure and Enjoyment.” I offer a revised and expanded version of it here. First I have an hors d’oeuvre: since 1986 men have been trying … More Lessons for Girls 16: Romance is for Fun. And: Hold On To Your Computer, House, and Car.
JOB MARKET PEOPLE: You do not have to have a Ph.D. program at your new school, but you do want a strong major and a good M.A. Barring the M.A., you want a really, really strong major. Otherwise you might as well stay home and teach at a community college, or “go secondary,” because it … More RAPIDAMENTE
I I detect in one teaching statement the key words INTEGRITY, DIGNITY, CONVICTION, and COMMITMENT. This is in response to the all too many compromises one makes, in the interest of bringing together different disciplines, “learning styles,” sub-disciplines, points of view, and so on – compromises which can lead to the creation not of an … More Three Parts
Now much has been discovered. RIEDUCAZIONE It was abusive but the thing about it was that, like all abuse, its ultimate goal was to teach self abuse. I already knew how to do that, having learned about it very early on in life. Education militated against it, which is why I liked education. Reeducation reactivated … More Mais, yeah: révélations du jour
ACADEMIA I have criticized Robert Boice’s writings on writing not for their actual content but because, I have said, they speak to people who do not know how to set up a writing program and need to know, or people who do not like to write and need to discover a way to write nevertheless. … More Balance. A Manifesto in Fragments
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