"You Should Be Very Afraid."

Knock Knock

Who's there? Speak up! Talk louder!
"Everything we need is here."
A student turned to me in class and
said I finally figured out what this
class is about.
"It's about us."
Another kid in another class announced
THIS BOOK SUCKS.
It was about him.
Class talk in 19th C. American Writers
yesterday was mostly about food. Should
have been about Ethan Brand and the
Unpardonable Sin.
It was about us.
Another student was telling me well
we're probably learning something Sam
and I said don't care if we are or not.
May I quote you on that?
(It was about me. )

We also share a dedication to the education
of our students, who will form the educated
public of tomorrow. It's up to us to ensure
that they receive a liberal-arts education that
provides them with the skills to critically evaluate
information content, its sources, and its relevance.

And while the discussion, reading, and thought
that are the hallmarks of the humanities are
necessary preludes to effective action, students
of the liberal arts will be ill-equipped to deal with
our complex world without a firm grounding in
statistics, computer science, knowledge of the
scientific method, and technological literacy.

What's this about? Knock Knock. Hello?

"You should be badly frightened of me if I answered
that question as forthrightly as it was asked,"
Wendell Berry said, chuckling at a long-
winded and ambitious question about
societal transformation.

"I don't know, and you don't
know either," he announced.