In The Pursuit of Knowledge & Intellectual Freedom

  
Turning up my snicker skepticism and deep
intuitive sense that, while we in the business
may talk this way, and while it informs the
alma matrix and matriculation, guidance
counseling, time management advising, strategic
planning  discourse, parents weekend seminars,
SACS procedures and reporting, graduation
speeches, it not only doesn’t do justice to what
actually motivates, it obscures the  process and
makes it difficult to get to the actual nitty gritty
and heart of liberal art, if not the liberal arts.  
 
Children: it takes a village, and we are all here
to pursue knowledge and intellectual freedom
and SO—here are rules for effective study,
course-taking, resume building, flip-card
manufacturing, test-taking, attendance
procedures—protocols for the pursuit
of knowledge and intellectual
freedom. 
 
Sort of like English [as maybe opposed to
creative writing teachers (though I suspect
them too)] instructing students how-to-write
as if it were in the service of Pursuit of
Knowledge and Intellectual Freedom which
don’t motivate any college writer I’ll bet 5
bucks. Maybe by the time they go thru Grad
School, they’ll think or at least say  that’s
what motivates, but I don’t believe it
ever.
 
In fact:
 
I don’t believe any one who claims that’s
their motive (pursuit of  knowledge and
intellectual freedom) & if they insist on
saying it is, I’ll have  accuse them of
denying their true aims, measurable goals,
assessable agenda  and if  they say NO .
I’m NOT Denying: well, then I’ll claim
they areIN-DENIAL and if they still persist:
 
no No NO.
 
I’ll say SEE!
 
What I’m sayin’ !