SACS or SEX?

No Myn Can Serve 2 Magisteries.

              Liberal
    ART ART ART
 
Can you imagine Platonic Love
without adding a Holmesian
snicker?
 
See:
that snicker right there prevents, blocks,
& scandalizes the possibility of liberal art
in the institution, reduces it to the liberal
arts and the profession.
 
Pity.
 
A now-dead artist cousin of mine would
show his work to my  son: “Don’t look
so fast,” he would admonish.
 
   “Please, please: be with me!”
 
If you would only see what I am seeing,
it would make me happy. But it don’t fit
your agenda, I know, your personal whelm
filters, shopping list, obligations & miles to
go before you sleep, miles to go.
   
Dear Paula,
 
We pay our efficient attention in class on
both sides of the desk because we got a
grade gun on us.

Take that away  and we’re all ADD
following our own  gnosis, though some
of us indulge our restless leggos, gun or no
gun, and probably  we should get the “A’s
from an amateur's standpoint if not prose.
 
Can  you imagine conducting a course
without Gun as Enforcer and Regulator?
I did this. Once. 
 
From the top of my  head  to the tip of my
toes: it let me know:  the only  AUTHORITY
is ex-officio
  
   I thought I was some times charismatic.

All gun.  When they said, “I’m so excited
about classes this fall,” I used to believe them.

Reciprocal brown gnosis is what professionalism
promulgates. Please Please, please me..
           

At Summerhill in England. no one has to do
anything.  Read Google if you doubt & I  don’t
blame you if  you do: thoroughly unprofessional.
 
   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summerhill_School
         
     WWSS? (What Would SACS Say?).
   
The principal at my first teaching job, gave copies
of A.S. Neill to everyone and you’re likely to say,  
that’s very well for lower  grades but not for hire.
 
The General Environment at Summerhill is such that,
like tattoos, body piercing, and bell-bottoms-in-the-
70’s:  it’s not cool  not to participate.  Peer pressure
and fashion dictate that I  got to be doing something,
& not just sitting in my tree.
 
And when they are ready to “graduate,” Summer-
hillians present themselves to faculty to show cause
—as they did here under the aegis of President
Randolph, Dewey-ite.
.
Thoroughly unprofessional,  the whole ambient
atmosphere.. I mention it  to turn up the foe-
dichotomy: Amateur on  the one hand;
Pro on the other. And can they Just
Get Along?  Imagine if you can
imagine if they could.

Just spotted a stack of discarded Cliff’s Notes
on the floor here in Jensen. Remember them? 
Scourge to  proper educating we all thought,
them and classic comics.
 
Nothing compared to what’s available now
to short-cut the system and confound the
proper pro. The whole  “deal” (what  we
talk about  when  we talk about educating)
needs  reformatting & reformation.  Need
we argue?

When was the last time you saw  a slide rule?
A pocket calculator?

xxxooo, Sam