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Grafton on the mission of the university. | Perplexed with Narrow Passages
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Perplexed with Narrow Passages. Grafton on the mission of the university. September 8, 2010 in Uncategorized. In a slightly dated article about the decline of universities in Britain, Anthony Grafton defines the mission of the modern university (in bold, below) and then goes on to discuss how recent budget measures in Britain have made it next to impossible for British universities to fulfill that mission:. Are academic salaries really the main source of the pressure on the principal? A Don’s Life. My Mo...
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Color me shocked. | Perplexed with Narrow Passages
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Perplexed with Narrow Passages. January 9, 2010 in The University in Ruins. And it’s going to shock you to find out that your intuitive sense that all those workshops and seminars and faculty development thingies were a complete waste of your time, was actually a scientific fact. Are you a verbal learner or a visual learner? Had these ideas been offered up for the public good, we might. But learning styles weren’t exactly. Sold for a song. Seems unlikely, doesn’t it? Learning styles will continue to gene...
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Breaking radio silence. | Perplexed with Narrow Passages
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Perplexed with Narrow Passages. March 23, 2011 in Uncategorized. Then I found this interesting bit, from. Dr Vilmar denounces, in strong terms, the self-conceit so characteristic of modern taste and modern criticism, which consigns so much of the past, and especially in the earlier history of nations, to oblivion, as necessarily unworthy of study. A Don’s Life. All Ravens, Some Crows. Australasian and Pacific Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Blog. Dr Boli’s Celebrated Magazine. Les Pages aux Folles.
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When new words go official. | Perplexed with Narrow Passages
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Perplexed with Narrow Passages. When new words go official. October 11, 2010 in Uncategorized. This post at OUPblog caught my eye–an announcement that “bromance” has now gotten some official recognition:. Can you believe the word bromance has now made it into the accepted lexicon through its addition to the New Oxford American Dictionary? I, for one, could not be more tickled. […]. To what can we credit this? Of course, I immediately thought of this parody:. A Don’s Life. All Ravens, Some Crows. Eighteen...
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Exams and regrets. | Perplexed with Narrow Passages
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Perplexed with Narrow Passages. December 17, 2008 in Teaching. I suppose the pump was already being primed. I’ve been writing and administering and grading exams this week, and a couple of days ago I read this post. Don’t forget this! 8221; Perhaps we can steal a trick from Kant and call that the pedagogical imperative: the dream of pedagogical perfection that persists even when my post- (or pre-? But the real counterpoint to the melancholy of exam writing is the. And I didn’t teach it. That...Proper ...
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Throwin’ up some horns. | Perplexed with Narrow Passages
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Perplexed with Narrow Passages. Throwin’ up some horns. April 1, 2011 in Uncategorized. Seventy metal books found in Jordan? This is the best metal news to come out of the Middle East since Acrassicauda:. A Don’s Life. All Ravens, Some Crows. Australasian and Pacific Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Blog. Dr Boli’s Celebrated Magazine. Early Modern Online Bibliography. Fill His Head First with a Thousand Questions. Geoffrey Chaucer Hath a Blog. Les Pages aux Folles. My Life and Thoughts. Blog at Wo...
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Another article debunking different learning styles. | Perplexed with Narrow Passages
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Perplexed with Narrow Passages. Another article debunking different learning styles. September 7, 2010 in Science or Common Sense? It’s starting to catch on, the idea that different learning styles are bunk. A paper. That was only cited as forthcoming evidence for this old post of mine. Has now been published, and it argues that there’s simply no persuasive evidence that there’s such a thing as different learning styles. Anyway, let me get to my favorite part of the article:. What we think is happening h...
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Eagleton on Newman. | Perplexed with Narrow Passages
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Perplexed with Narrow Passages. September 4, 2010 in Uncategorized. I have a lot of conflicting feelings about the work of Terry Eagleton, which I won’t go into here, but that makes me all the more happy to find a passage of his in which I wholeheartedly concur:. 8220;Vandals, philistines, and soulless bureaucrats,” indeed. A Don’s Life. All Ravens, Some Crows. Australasian and Pacific Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Blog. Dr Boli’s Celebrated Magazine. Early Modern Online Bibliography. You are co...
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Reasons to Study Literature #11 | Perplexed with Narrow Passages
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Perplexed with Narrow Passages. Reasons to Study Literature #11. January 18, 2011 in Reasons To Study Literature. Because it makes you smarter than similar coursework in “business, education, social work, and communications”:. This article reports on the findings of a brand new book, Academically Adrift: Limited Learning on College Campuses,. A Don’s Life. All Ravens, Some Crows. Australasian and Pacific Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Blog. Dr Boli’s Celebrated Magazine. Les Pages aux Folles.
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Samuel Johnson, record-setter. | Perplexed with Narrow Passages
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Perplexed with Narrow Passages. Samuel Johnson, record-setter. November 3, 2010 in Uncategorized. OK, I haven’t blogged in an unconscionably long time. Things have been busy in ye olde Casa de Perplexed, what can I say. But this bit of Johnson trivia struck me as blog-worthy–and maybe getting my feet wet will bring me back into circulation:. The previous best had been the $140,000 (then 94,710) paid for a copy, unusually bound as three volumes in original sheep-backed boards, in the Abel Berland library,...
