Sometimes my students make statements or ask questions to which there is no response beyond contemplation. Be enlightened. December 10, 2009: I feel like all I’m getting from this school is an education.
Archive for January, 2010
Student Koan #3
Posted in Student Koans on January 27, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Student Koan #2
Posted in Student Koans, tagged Teaching on January 17, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Sometimes my students make statements or ask questions to which there is no response beyond contemplation. Be enlightened. March 15, 2009: What if I’m curious about what it feels like to be swindled, so I pay you $25 and ask you to swindle me, but then you just keep the money and walk away? Have [...]
Monsters
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Concept Aquisition, Faith, Literature, Poetry, Teaching on January 16, 2010 | 3 Comments »
These pages rustle with the stealthy movements of strictly orthodox, old-fashioned monsters: werewolves and horrors spawned by the great deep; quasi-humans and robots, vampires and fearsome survivors from the dark abysm of the remote past, abortions from the scientist’s laboratory. Such creatures present a wholesome, indeed a cheerful contrast to the psychological deformities of contemporary [...]
Student Koan #1
Posted in Student Koans, tagged Teaching on January 14, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Sometimes my students make statements or ask questions to which there is no response beyond contemplation. Be enlightened. December 3, 2009: What ice cream flavor would you choose to eat if eating it would certainly kill you?
Heaven
Posted in Speeches on January 4, 2010 | 6 Comments »
What follows is (mostly) hyperbole, and was inspired by a genius bit of writing from a kid in my German class in college. He once published an essay claiming to be smarter than Socrates. He also pointed out that all math is basically long division. Before I gave this speech three years ago, I had [...]
