Re: this is a tragic situation now the comedy

Daniel,

You ask: "Is that what you call it, 'stumbling?'"

Stumbling is often just what it is.

Despite the listings and the syllabi and the course plans and the lectures
and the notes and the assigned texts and all the rest, despite all the planning
and the cirriculum decisions and the core and major requirements, despite it
all, students stumble on ideas, thoughts, passages, images, fragments, novels,
poems, essays, moments that resonate, that move them, that provoke them, and
suddenly, sometimes after days and weeks of sitting in the back, eyes half
closed, wondering what time it is, wondering if the girl sitting in front of them
has noticed them, wondering what they're going to do this weekend, suddenly,
they are alive. Suddenly they recognize somewhere a thought they've had or a
moment they've experienced or an idea they've wondered about or a provocation
they can't resist. And they care. And they speak. And they read. And they
learn.

And then all your stupid talk of liberals and conservatives and your nonsense
about brainwashing and discrimination and conspiracies is instantly made
irrelevant. A discussion takes place. A thought occurs. And I go home smiling.

The rest, Daniel, is pettiness and squabbling and not worth my time.

--John

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Received on Mon Sep 29 20:39:23 2003