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Tag Archives: Interdisciplinary
Lamp of Knowledge
A couple of people have asked for the remarks I made when receiving the “Lamp of Knowledge” award last Friday evening. There were some extemporaneous comments tying in to Tony Sirignano’s recognition, but here’s the original text, which is mostly … Continue reading
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Beauty
The following is an exchange with a colleague on the subject of beauty in literature. My comments in red. My wife’s histology professor in medical school was well-known for describing cellular processes as “elegant.” Physicist/author Brian Greene writes about the … Continue reading
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New Year’s Thoughts
Seemed like an appropriate time for some thoughts from Whitehead on education: Education is the acquisition of the art of the utilization of knowledge. In education, the broad primrose path. . . is represented by a book or a … Continue reading
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Math and English
One of the vocab quizzes from the previous post talked about how the student preferred math to English because math produced “objective answers.” When I shared that quiz with some other folks, it produced an interesting exchange. Stanford student: Good … Continue reading
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What is an American (part 2)
There are two continents and a land bridge between them that are generally considered “the Americas,” so it understandably annoys a significant portion of the Western Hemisphere when the people of the USA consider and refer to themselves as “Americans.” … Continue reading
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American Literature: 4 Questions
I am probably going to be teaching a section of American Literature next year, which has caused me to ponder what I should teach and why. For years, various people have urged that an American Studies course, wherein American history … Continue reading
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Natural philosophy
I spent about forty minutes today with a fourth grader, whom I was told wanted to talk to someone about some questions he had about philosophy. Or maybe I misunderstood what we were going to be visiting about. But anyway, … Continue reading
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English 2012
A couple of years ago, I had my senior English class spend two days thinking about what “English 2012” should look like at St. John’s. The idea was to start from scratch (not based on adapting a current course) but … Continue reading
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ISAS 1.5
I woke up this morning thinking about teaching, no doubt the effect of all those talks and conversations with colleagues yesterday. What I was thinking, though, was that enjoyable (and worthwhile) as they mostly were, none of them addressed (save … Continue reading
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ISAS Day 1
It was good to see colleagues from other schools whom I get to see only too rarely these days. It was also interesting to hear so many of my basic principles of teaching from the last many years affirmed by … Continue reading
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