Always for the Sake of Argument

Dear College,
 
National News  raised the question
again of whether college is worth
the cost.  Is this a significant concern.
Is addressing it demoralizing?
 
An opportunity?
 
Someone famous said what's most
worthwhile can't be taught. 
 
That don't mean what can be taught
isn't worthwhile.  But most-worth
while is maybe  a  course of another
color.
 
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1) “Creative writing could be described
as a type of learning process where
teacher and pupil are located in the
same individual.
 
2) “Creative people like to ascribe
this role of the teacher to an entity
they call the unconscious —which
they recognize as a kind of Socratic
demon.  While others deny its
existence, and still other are
prepared to admit it but
deplore the ambiguity
of the concept.
 
3) “The decisive breakthroughs in science,
art, or philosophy are successful escapes
from the bondage of mental habits,
from orthodoxy and over-
specialization. 
 
4) “All creative activity is a kind of do-it-yourself
therapy, an attempt to come to terms with
transformational challenges.
 
5) “Yet humor remains for me the master
key to the understanding of the
creative process.
 
6) “Compelled to perceive a situation in
two self-consistent but incompatible
frames of reference at the same time--
functioning on two different wave
lengths [as it were] at the same
time: 
 
7)  ah   aha    ha ha
                    
Specimen samples  from Arthur Koestler
Pedagogy of Pain (I think that’s the title).
Bricks to Babel