Need We Argue?

    

Dear American Literati, Readers

in Humanity, Dialecticians and

Colleagues Across the Curriculum.

Never on Friday Lecture

(Coursing without Borders)

What is KNOWLEDGE?

Asks a student in American Literature

The question makes a noun of IT, as-if

it were some  thing I might have, lose,

make, give to  you and maybe you’ll take

it or not.

As-if. .

How much do I know?  More than you?

Less?  Same amount but  different? How

do I know?

What is truth, the truth?  Noun? Verb?  Do

I have some?   Do it? Want it?

A measureable outcome?. Or mere manners

of speaking so to speak?  Convenient. A

convention—the measuring  of knowledge..

If there is no person sitting on the rock, is

the rock hard?  I say no: no no no..  If the

cat isn’t in  the  same   room  with me, is it

still a Sneeze- Maker?  Or course not.. I have

no  agenda in my course so  there is no such

thing as  ADD to  be found.  When I don’t

give an  exam every one is as smart as the

smartest kid in class.

Need we argue?

Don’t talk like this in them other  classes.

Monkey wrenches the  Getting of Done.

I know this for  a  fact.

I’m  hear to learn.

Do the mathema.