The “school problem” has two dimensions, as he sees it. One is the engineering aspect: the means by which young people acquire an education. The other is the metaphysical aspect: the underlying purpose or mission — the “end” — of education. Postman believes that the debate over the future of America’s schools focuses too much … More Synopsis of Postman, “The end of education”
Syllabus revisions, website revisions, e-gradebook grading, grading in general, course planning, and maintenance of gradebooks are now constant. Tuesday write on site is a constant. Two bureaucratic documents are left to be done, and more regular writing on That Article needs to be done. There is now also a bureaucratic question to be asked, and … More The week, the week
Someone said: I am glad you spoke up; I hope you get support; I wish I were forthright like you. It felt right. I had been feeling nervous about having spoken up and was trying to talk myself into learning never to speak up again. But that sentence: I am glad you spoke up, I … More On speaking up
Although it is a question of time, as well. If I am going to LASA in Lima, then another event in Tampa and another in Washington, and if I am to go to California and Minnesota as well, do I have time to do this in a way that would actually benefit me? I already … More Si j’avais l’argent
Le plan: What is left: 316 syllabus TWEAK and tweak Moodle site, 202 syllabus TWEAK and both of its websites, arborist, door-maker, Gary, vita, two bureaucratic documents (teaching and administration), student papers. New next week: 462 lecture Monday, contact LASA people Monday, restart article writing Tuesday, continue article, LASA, LHA Wednesday, Thursday, Friday…and weekend, all the way up … More Allons voir comment je vais y aller — updated (yet more) (and more)
I am reading translation theory for class and catching my breath. These were my original research questions, when I was a child. The reasons I studied the things I did. Not the relationship between words and things, but words and thoughts, and the way in which language produces or conditions perception. Axé.
At the gym, I was watching television while rowing. On the show, the daughter told her mother, “I am so tired of you always expecting the worst of me!” And I realized that was it. There are so many factors. I love two-year-olds because I was adored at that age as well, but when I … More Insight
Update 2: This schedule, even in its revised version, is punitive and I have been unable to work efficiently since I made it. Why is it not all right to just do as we did in college and graduate school, which was work at school as you would a job? Why are we exhorted to … More A schedule PROBLEM
Mais c’est si clair. I feel guilty and nervous about doing work because I know I will be interrupted as soon as I really start. It all had to do with the self serving agenda of others. “Your work is just play, and you will see that relatively soon. Your real role is to serve … More La psychanalyse
Today I submitted an application for the PEN/Heim Translation Prize, in 18,000 words. Pachamama, Pallas Athena, Iansan, old father, all artificers, stand me now in good stead. Axé.
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