Keeping IT Real

Keeping IT Real

“For a short time he took his studies seriously,
but soon was reading every thing except what
he was supposed to read.”

Martin Gardner's portrait of Samuel Taylor Coleridge
as a young liberal artist: “outgoing,  impulsive,  emotional,

unstable, weak-willed, impractical, helpless, careless, at
times a liar and a hypocrite, always fun-loving and loveable.”

I once told a class:

“Look, I don’t care if you read the text or not;  if I cared,
I couldn’t CARE for crying out loud, and I really CARE.”

Levels.

Keeping IT real. Keeping It REAL? I’m embarrassed to
think I maybe I can.  As if IT needed my assistance.

Nevertheless,  I would make IT  a banner theme  always for
whatever three coursesI’m  teaching any given semester..

Let’s try & keep it real  this time.

“Oh, you’re going to keep it real, then?” 

Yes. Yes. But I need help.

Can’t figure how  to frame it  so it’s possible, so it's delightfully
difficult, so it's desirable, so any one  would want to & could  if
they wanted to.  (Keep it real)

Easier to keep it  unreal. Pretend. Saving the Appearances.

“Y’all here to get an education, right?”

“Yes, Sam. You  know that we are!”