Monday, January 28
Red Rock Eater Digest - Supporting the Intellectual Life of a Democratic Society
[I don't know what to make of this paper. It's the strangest thing
I've ever written. It grows out of many years of careful observation
of the process by which I do whatever it is I do for a living. But
its significance is not just personal. I believe that everyone has
an intellectual calling, and for years I've evolved methods to force
students out of an attitude of passive conformity, doing whatever the
professor wants, and instead to discover what it is they really care
about, so that they can articulate in intellectual terms a calling
that they really feel, really believe in, and really get up in the
morning to act on.
