Category Archives: education

The Value of an Education, Perhaps

I spent this morn­ing read­ing some of an essay by Hei­deg­ger, copy­ing down a poem of Yeats’ into the jour­nal (yes, I keep a pen and paper one). There’s Plato’s Gor­gias to fin­ish read­ing, and try to put together with the Pro­tago­ras and the Greater Hip­pias. I’m very happy with how the third part of …

August 27, 2010 – 12:54 pm | By ashok | Posted in education, personal | Comments (7)

Re: “Lines on Plagiarism Blur for Students in the Digital Age,” by Trip Gabriel

Trip Gabriel, “Lines on Pla­gia­rism Blur for Stu­dents in the Dig­i­tal Age” (h/t Kishore) I kinda feel sorry for the author of this arti­cle. There has to be this pre­tense of objec­tiv­ity, this sense that there’s a real inquiry going on: “Now we have a whole gen­er­a­tion of stu­dents who’ve grown up with infor­ma­tion that just …

August 4, 2010 – 3:12 pm | By ashok | Posted in academia, education | Comments (7)

For Discussion: The College Degree as Social Status

I hon­estly don’t think about this issue much. Most of my time is spent try­ing to fig­ure out why read­ing old books is rel­e­vant to any­thing, and real­iz­ing that I’m prob­a­bly fight­ing a los­ing bat­tle. And I sus­pect many of us would ini­tially go “pffft. How does a col­lege give social sta­tus, unless it is …

June 10, 2010 – 5:59 pm | By ashok | Posted in education, links | Comments (3)

At the University of Dallas, 3/28/10

I’m try­ing to get the “vibe” of cam­pus, and am try­ing to get to know as many peo­ple as pos­si­ble. It does feel like things are more con­ser­v­a­tive here than when I started 7 years ago, but by “more con­ser­v­a­tive” I don’t mean peo­ple are busy putting up angry posters about lib­er­als and health care …

March 27, 2010 – 4:17 pm | By ashok | Posted in academia, education, personal, politics | Comments (0)

So, Um, What’s the Value of a Liberal Arts Education Again?

From John Lingan’s “They’re All Zom­bies,” about a new craze sweep­ing col­leges nation­wide: Now that the game has been embraced by stu­dents at a dozen-odd other col­leges, we can see its pro­po­nents for what they really are: kids who view col­lege as a four-year play­ground. These stu­dents exists at any school—hence the pop­u­lar­ity of H …

March 4, 2010 – 6:08 pm | By ashok | Posted in academia, education | Comments (3)