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Wednesday, October 17, 2007

Up to my A** in Alligators

other than that life is pretty boring: get up, read, write, go to class, sleep, get up, read, write, go to class, sleep, repeat. Life is all in my head at the moment. The stuff in my head is pretty interesting however. Right now I'm doing a paper on Philip H. Phenix. When he was 19 yrs old (1934) Albert Einstein called his professor and asked to meet him because his senior ( he was a college senior at 19, let's start there) thesis was that astounding. He went on to teach at Teachers College , Columbia University for about 30 years, his legacy is mostly what he wrote about the quest for meaning and the moral curriculum. It's facinating to me, but everything I'm reading about is. The trick is to know when to stop reading and start writing.
The other thing I've been reading this week is the rhizome. I'll let the video clip clue you in on that.

1 comment:

nimsey said...

I have a friend in NYC going to Teachers College. It all sounds really cool.