tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19838051.post6523074117940572560..comments2024-01-28T22:16:50.852-06:00Comments on Mr. Dilettante’s Neighborhood: Head down and mouth shutMr. Dhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13920907647566015611noreply@blogger.comBlogger15125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19838051.post-84711608946071709772017-03-16T08:02:44.478-05:002017-03-16T08:02:44.478-05:00Yes, and try explaining a "typewriter" o...Yes, and try explaining a "typewriter" or a "record player" to one of them. You will REALLY feel old. jerrye92002https://www.blogger.com/profile/01858692298982859775noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19838051.post-64215477969121681692017-03-15T22:04:30.354-05:002017-03-15T22:04:30.354-05:00Damn kids are getting old... Where'd the time ...Damn kids are getting old... Where'd the time go?Ginohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09606046924332159076noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19838051.post-52652592722059786062017-03-14T21:22:14.108-05:002017-03-14T21:22:14.108-05:00Just send her Knox so her brother can watch over h...<i>Just send her Knox so her brother can watch over her...</i><br /><br />Her brother will be gone -- he graduates from college next year and she graduates from high school next year.Mr. Dhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13920907647566015611noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19838051.post-56948110766933584562017-03-14T18:05:19.754-05:002017-03-14T18:05:19.754-05:00Just send her Knox so her brother can watch over h...Just send her Knox so her brother can watch over her... Ginohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09606046924332159076noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19838051.post-45492110032044668022017-03-14T16:32:19.761-05:002017-03-14T16:32:19.761-05:00A couple of years at Hillsdale, getting her basic ...A couple of years at Hillsdale, getting her basic credits and learning "conservative apologetics" could serve her very well should she transfer, if necessary, to a more specialized college for her major.3john2https://www.blogger.com/profile/05359114327414576258noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19838051.post-33278687033696008652017-03-14T15:42:40.954-05:002017-03-14T15:42:40.954-05:00What is Maria's course of study going to be?
...<i>What is Maria's course of study going to be?</i><br /><br />Don't know that yet. She could go a number of different directions.<br /><br />Mr. Dhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13920907647566015611noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19838051.post-57444192878615440362017-03-14T15:14:33.978-05:002017-03-14T15:14:33.978-05:00What is Maria's course of study going to be?What is Maria's course of study going to be?Ginohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09606046924332159076noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19838051.post-16766281655172885432017-03-14T14:35:30.141-05:002017-03-14T14:35:30.141-05:00It strikes me that you could put a dagger through ...It strikes me that you could put a dagger through the heart of politicized education if you had a required freshman seminar on basic logical fallacies, as well as two basic policies; students are welcome to record their professors' lectures, and a policy that professors who indulge these fallacies will have that marked negatively on their tenure reviews.<br /><br />I am of course dreaming, or possibly smoking something good, to believe that this would happen any place besides Hillsdale or comparable schools, but hey, a man can dream, can't he?Bike Bubbahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08193546045614393425noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19838051.post-73337831224163134202017-03-14T13:07:58.014-05:002017-03-14T13:07:58.014-05:00I like Hillsdale. They are doing good work there.I like Hillsdale. They are doing good work there.Mr. Dhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13920907647566015611noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19838051.post-85183612001707827022017-03-14T12:49:32.282-05:002017-03-14T12:49:32.282-05:00Consider Hillsdale. Here's a good write-up fro...Consider Hillsdale. Here's a good write-up from, of all places, the New York Times. <br />https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/01/education/edlife/hillsdale-college-great-books-constitution-conservatives.html?_r=0<br />3john2https://www.blogger.com/profile/05359114327414576258noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19838051.post-19904932136419777282017-03-14T12:30:33.055-05:002017-03-14T12:30:33.055-05:00We're on the road next week. Four more schools...We're on the road next week. Four more schools. We'll see what we learn.Mr. Dhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13920907647566015611noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19838051.post-83668771794903841362017-03-14T12:24:37.488-05:002017-03-14T12:24:37.488-05:00My niece is a freshman at the second best Big Ten ...My niece is a freshman at the second best Big Ten university in the "Mitten", and her roommate moved out because my niece wouldn't protest Trump. The roommate, an Asian-American girl whose parents are wealthy enough to afford out of state tuition in Ann Arbor, proceeded to describe my niece's problem as "white privilege." Now my step-brother is not poor by any means, but the notion that my niece has privilege, but her roommate does not, is just strange.Bike Bubbahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08193546045614393425noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19838051.post-50742598382280298962017-03-14T11:57:45.582-05:002017-03-14T11:57:45.582-05:00The other day my brother posted on FB that he thou...The other day my brother posted on FB that he thought Trump was unhinged and that anybody who couldn't see it was incomprehensible to him. I attempted to clarify, "Do you mean mentally ill in a clinical sense." Yes. <br /><br />There is massive cognitive dissonance in our country. Colleges and universities are convinced that they are all about free speech and an open society. St. Olaf is a home to Kierkegaard, not Nietzsche, but one may be forgiven for being confused in this matter.<br /><br />So does one attempt to live in the midst of a growing evil that insists that is good? Sure, if one cares to be a prophet, a witness to the truth. Or if one is comfortable with a kind of principled, monastic silence. But there is suffering either way. That's a lot to consider for a freshman.W.B. Picklesworthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03187309512838841997noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19838051.post-45164935518881461642017-03-14T11:52:34.788-05:002017-03-14T11:52:34.788-05:00there's always Liberty University. or one of t...there's always Liberty University. or one of the few remaining truly Catholic institutions.Ginohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09606046924332159076noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19838051.post-41593947793869390192017-03-14T11:16:43.802-05:002017-03-14T11:16:43.802-05:00I hope you find a location where the offering incl...I hope you find a location where the offering includes a higher education. It does not sound as if you have found one yet. jerrye92002https://www.blogger.com/profile/01858692298982859775noreply@blogger.com