<div>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?" </div> <div> </div> <div>Mike Hirsch <br><br> </div> <div><span class="gmail_quote">On 10/17/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">MICHAEL YATES</b> <<a href="mailto:mikedjyates@msn.com">mikedjyates@msn.com</a>> wrote:</span> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">When I was about to retire from full-time college teaching, I sent out<br>several rather caustic fulminations about our colleges.  When I complained <br>about students, someone on one of these lists took me to task and said that<br>I had to learn how to deliver things in discrete five-minute sound bites to<br>accommodate today's low-attention-span students.  That was five years ago. <br>Probably be two-minutes now.  Glad I quit.<br><br>Michael Yates<br><br><br>___________________________________<br><a href="http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/mailman/listinfo/lbo-talk">http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/mailman/listinfo/lbo-talk </a><br></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>________________________________________<br>`And these words shall then become<br>Like oppression's thundered doom<br>Ringing through each heart and brain,<br>Heard again -- again -- again-- <br>`Rise like Lions after slumber<br>In unvanquishable number--<br>Shake your chains to earth like dew<br>Which in sleep had fallen on you--<br>Ye are many -- they are few.'<br>--------Shelley, "The Mask of Anarchy: <br>Written on the Occasion of the Massacre at Manchester" [1819]<br><br>