tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5687347459208158501.post6659788467451371170..comments2024-03-28T01:17:42.336-04:00Comments on The Philosopher's Stone: THE PILOT PROGRAM AT BENNETT COLLEGERobert Paul Wolffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11970360952872431856noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5687347459208158501.post-13183182922918992352012-06-01T06:46:58.357-04:002012-06-01T06:46:58.357-04:00I guess I got out of the habit of forgetting the d...I guess I got out of the habit of forgetting the dangers --- after thirteen years of using public transit. In truth, it seems as soon as I sit "behind the wheel" ( and I think pure semantics doesn' t decide what sort of wheel it is, and only extra- linguistic knowledge warrants the inference that it is not a torture device--- though I am suggesting it is......) I immediately want to eat or check something in my bag, or do any one of a thousand things that need to be avoided to drive safely. I guess those are all complicated things to do while driving,,,,,or complicating things. But I do think that Michael Dawson put it well when he said: Think of all the things you can do while riding the Paris metro.......formerly a wage slavehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16064562730082906589noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5687347459208158501.post-8284727977820804612012-05-31T13:54:23.236-04:002012-05-31T13:54:23.236-04:00Professor Wolff --
You are a North Carolina resid...Professor Wolff --<br /><br />You are a North Carolina resident. What gives?<br /><br />http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/05/north_carolina_sea_level_global_warming.php?ref=fpa<br /><br />-- JimJimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00826600172627425879noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5687347459208158501.post-21966112926548369212012-05-31T09:35:19.882-04:002012-05-31T09:35:19.882-04:00As I am sure you know, Jerry, it was I who started...As I am sure you know, Jerry, it was I who started STPEC, way back when. I rather like the idea of a Sunnyside reference, though I cannot imagine how to do it!Robert Paul Wolffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11970360952872431856noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5687347459208158501.post-65574036811410228742012-05-31T06:52:24.627-04:002012-05-31T06:52:24.627-04:00Sounds well thought out. I like the various suppor...Sounds well thought out. I like the various support mechanisms. I taught for a time at the Evergreen State College in WA where there was similar emphasis on self-initiative. It seems to me that the recruitment people are key in this. How does one identify students who demonstrate the requisite determination, curiosity and the like? What efforts are there to reach into the lower strata of society? Is there a STPEC orientation (that's UMass lingo for social thought and political economy, ie, critical thinking)? My only suggestion is that you work "Sunnyside" into the title of something.Jerry Fresiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01427077490696059928noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5687347459208158501.post-36753302516249674612012-05-30T06:41:06.770-04:002012-05-30T06:41:06.770-04:00If you think about it, driving presupposes an extr...If you think about it, driving presupposes an extraordinary degree of trust in the rationality [not to say the hand eye coordination] of tens of thousands of people you have never met. All it takes is someone swerving suddenly and irrationally from the oncoming lane into your lane to kill you. And yet we do this every day without so much as a thought.Robert Paul Wolffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11970360952872431856noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5687347459208158501.post-11841101448199358642012-05-30T04:27:54.399-04:002012-05-30T04:27:54.399-04:00About driving: I am younger than you and I make a ...About driving: I am younger than you and I make a policy of not driving on the so- called freeway. Of course, if there is an emergency someday I might break that rule. On the local freeway, drivers drive extremely close to one another -- so you have four or six or more cars travellingly quickly and dangerously close, and that is too dangerous for me. On the other hand, if I go to a grocery store, people start apologizing if they come within merely ? Three/ ?four feet of me with their carts! This is insane. I would call a dislike of driving mere sanity. My life was so much better when I did not have to drive. I had so very many fewer worries......and I do hope some day to be free again......formerly a wage slavehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16064562730082906589noreply@blogger.com