jim
--- Michael Hirsch <mmh655 at gmail.com> wrote:
> For me, I knew the end was near when, back in the
> day in a discussion of
> Gramsci, a student asked "will this be on the test?"
> Mike Hirsch
>
> On 10/17/05, MICHAEL YATES <mikedjyates at msn.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > When I was about to retire from full-time college
> teaching, I sent out
> > several rather caustic fulminations about our
> colleges. When I complained
> > about students, someone on one of these lists took
> me to task and said
> > that
> > I had to learn how to deliver things in discrete
> five-minute sound bites
> > to
> > accommodate today's low-attention-span students.
> That was five years ago.
> > Probably be two-minutes now. Glad I quit.
> >
> > Michael Yates
> >
> >
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> `And these words shall then become
> Like oppression's thundered doom
> Ringing through each heart and brain,
> Heard again -- again -- again--
> `Rise like Lions after slumber
> In unvanquishable number--
> Shake your chains to earth like dew
> Which in sleep had fallen on you--
> Ye are many -- they are few.'
> --------Shelley, "The Mask of Anarchy:
> Written on the Occasion of the Massacre at
> Manchester" [1819]
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Jim Davis Ozark Bioregion, USA
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