[lit-ideas] Re: education
- From: Andy <mimi.erva@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 29 Feb 2012 17:14:50 -0800 (PST)
No, no, no. Not to worry. We don't need to close the universities if the
teaching isn't neurotic. Seriously. What a beautiful image, though, Socrates
and Rorty all a bloom. It's probably what Wordsworth had in mind when he said,
"Ten thousand saw I at a glance, tossing their heads in sprightly dance ... And
then my heart with pleasure fills, And dances with the daffodils."
The crimson pall of eve having fallen, I must run. Or glide. Or the
whirlwinds my banner unfurl...
Andy
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From: Walter C. Okshevsky <wokshevs@xxxxxx>
To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx; Andy <mimi.erva@xxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, February 29, 2012 2:33 PM
Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: education
Well, there you have it. As Socrates, Rorty and A Bloom all recognized, if the
teaching isn't erotic, we're all wasting our time and you might as well close
the universities.
Walter O
MUN
Quoting Andy <mimi.erva@xxxxxxxxx>:
> I had four professors who had profound influences on me. One changed my life
> completely, and three others nearly so. My favorite professor was in
> American lit with whom I had a seminar on the topic of the common man in
> American literature, which I recently bumbled through in my last It's Friday
> musical attempt. (The class was very different; no mention of unions or
> Michael Keaton at all.) Another professor was in a class called myth and
> literature; no myth in particular was ever mentioned, yet somehow I made
> connections differently after that wonderful summer class. The last
> professor, a writing class, also had a powerful effect on me in connecting
> Freud to literature. There were other really good professors (Milton,
> Romantic literature, 18th century lit, others) in addition to those magical
> ones. Nowadays it's mostly all documentaries, all the time, whether books or
> video, but I read a beautiful classic not that long ago,
> Wuthering Heights. Kind of brought back the fun days...
>
> Andy
>
>
>
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> From: Thomas Hart <tehart@xxxxxxx>
> To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Sent: Monday, February 27, 2012 9:06 PM
> Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: education
>
>
> From my undergrad and M.A. alma mater
> http://departments.columbian.gwu.edu/english/undergraduate/courses/upperlevel
>
>
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