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That Little Thing
Completing my undergraduate major requirements in mathematics before I was a senior, I had grown impatient with mathematics largely because it seemed to me at the time so isolating from people. I was utterly naïve of course and had become … Continue reading
My Great Awakening
for Alex Perry I’d been sitting across the desk from him for what seemed an eternity. He was hunched over my paper commenting on every one of the dozens of red notations he had written there. We were still on … Continue reading
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Thoughts on Considering New CU Religion Programs
Not since Gutenberg has a revolution in media impacted the world as greatly as e-media are today. Although invented in the fifteenth century it took many decades for the impact of typography to be widely felt, yet it is clear … Continue reading
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Writing is Gesture: Leroi-Gourhan
In his fascinating Gesture and Speech (1964, 1993) André Leroi-Gourhan traces the development of alphabetic writing considering it a distant consequence of the upright posture that allowed the hand to be free to draw the focus of communication from the … Continue reading
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Education is Not Information
The future of education must carefully and critically question the current broadly held understanding that education is information. Late in the twentieth century research began to demonstrate conclusively that meaning and value are based in and founded on bodily experience. … Continue reading
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How to Save the University: Lessons from the Possible Saving of the News
We are all well aware of the decline of the newspaper industry. A number of factors have contributed to this decline: shift to on-line news sources, decline of newspaper advertisers who find other media are more cost effective, a shift … Continue reading
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Future of University – Writing Conventions
The Future of the University: Writing Conventions August 24, 2010 It is somewhat confounding to me that while one of the most important images and charges of the university is that it represents the freedom to experiment and think, … Continue reading
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