January 2012
27 posts
“No experience is educative that does not tend both to knowledge of more facts...”
– John Dewey
Paula Cohen writes about how the contemporary education system (think: standardized tests) in America has strayed from John Dewey’s vision. Read.
(via theamericanscholar)
“Of course I know that writers, like everyone else, have to pay the bills. But I...”
– Zinsser, dropping knowledge on all ye prospective writers. Read. (via theamericanscholar)
“It takes listeners longer to determine what a word is—to understand c-a-t to be...”
– Jessica Love on word neighborhoods. Read. (via theamericanscholar)
The Embarrassment of Riches →
theamericanscholar:
longformorg:
A pre-recession essay on becoming extremely wealthy.
Pamela Haag | The American Scholar | Jun 2006
The editors here are talking about this piece in relation to Mitt Romney’s comment that $360,000 is not that much money.
“Someday, no doubt, we shall be spied upon from space platforms equipped with...”
– Richard H. Rovere, writing in 1958 about the lack of privacy in the modern world. 1958. Read more. (via theamericanscholar)
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“My first semester in graduate school, one of my professors told us a little...”
– William Deresiewicz, in yesterday’s Daily Scholar on the topic of politics in academia. Read. (via theamericanscholar)
City of Athens Will Allow Demolition of Bella Vino... →
zieberkr:
Wonderful. Historic Athens building constructed in the 1800s will be demolished to make way for more sub-par college housing and parking. #grumble (h/t Athens neighborhoodr)
This is a bummer.
“When written, a g is a g is a g, regardless of the letters that surround it, and...”
– Jessica Love, on the tiny idiosyncrasies in our everyday conversations. Read (via theamericanscholar)
“A liberal, as I use the term, is someone who never gives up trying to see the...”
– Using his personal relationship with political pariah Scooter Libby as a backdrop, Nick Bromell devulges his thoughts on the liberal/fundamentalist divide that has gripped our country since the end of Cold War.
Read.
(via theamericanscholar)
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“My experience with Jasper taught me two things. One: even minor relationships...”
– Emily Bernard, mourning the fickleness of friendships, both insignificant and not insignificant. Read. (via theamericanscholar)
“I dream of a world without assholes. We all do, don’t we? You’d have to be an...”
– William Deresiewicz, on our arrogant, puckered co-humans. Read. (via theamericanscholar)
“…fascist movements take on the coloration of their host culture, using their...”
– Lawrence Powell, writing about the rise and fall of David Duke, also-ran Governor of Louisiana, ex-KKK wizard, and Holocaust denier. Read. (via theamericanscholar)
“A number of studies have demonstrated that having certain names—particularly...”
– Jessica Love, on our names and where they will take us. Read. (via theamericanscholar)
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“The planet would be such a lovely, peaceful place, she said, once we humans had...”
– Evelyn Toynton, eulogizing her mother. (via theamericanscholar)
December 2011
42 posts
What Kind of Father Am I? →
theamericanscholar:
Ever since as a young soldier I saw that pale cone of energy vanishing toward the point that would bring the end of consciousness, I’ve had no fear of dying: those last moments of life seem to come easily, without worry or physical pain, as we slip back to our source in a natural world indifferent to distinctions and oblivious to time.
Professor of English at...
