There is someone here you need to meet.
There is someone here you need to meet.
:- Doug.
You can get something in conversing
You can get no other place
This person, this now
:- Doug.
Archive for August 3rd, 2011
Something you get no other place than conversing
Moments are more precious now
The moments of life are more precious
To me now than when I was your age
So may we use them to carry valuable conversation?
:- Doug.
The more one knows the harder it is to be adamant about the best option.
The more one knows the harder it is to be adamant about the best option.
:- Doug.
Footprints in the Windsm # 1175–dragonflies
Footprints in the Windsm # 1175
The sun
and the wind
& the dragonflies
are oneand sitting among
all these
you and I
with them
are onehawk wheeling above
dew glittering
cars with
pavement singing
are onetree frogs
not heard
but deafening
remind us all
are onestorm & thunder
greening gardens
destruction & babies
even politicians
are onesweat and
all breath and
one last breath
are one
Please pass it on.
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Remember your higher calling
Remember yourselves, remember your higher calling. Pay no attention to the tinkling bell laughing at truth and play. Pay no attention to the rock throwers, nor to the tempting things to eat or distract. Live, engage.
:- Doug.
Assimilation is out of your head
Assimilation needs attention and intention. It occurs not even primarily in one person’s head, but between and among living beings. Here we need to attend.
:- Doug.
Some academic fallacies:
Some academic fallacies, and sub-fallacies: Because we (the colleges) are the seat of learning, we are the seat of credentials—all credentials. We are the seat of all learning.
Everything that can be known can be given in a lecture. Everything that can be known is known.
There lives among these fallacies the danger of academic hubris—that we are the ones who know it.
There is no room for experience, nor for art, nor especially in our culture, for betweens and amongs: the group mind.
Therefore everything to be known can be known and processed inside a single (human) brain. Thus the way to “teach” is by depositing.
There is no room for interplay.
:- Doug.
