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My previous post (“Manners”) was a rather optimistic look at the potential benefits of the academic life for students (and faculty). This post is the other side of that coin.
I currently teach a class in which students are asked to learn. I don’t mean that they are asked to memorize material from a […]
Recently I was asked to speak to the inductees of the Philosophy Honors Society (Phi Sigma Tau) at the University of South Carolina. What follows is a rough approximation of what I said, rewritten for a wider audience.
…In 2003, the average household in the U.S. spent $372 on state lottery tickets…. On average, over 10 years spending this much money on the South Carolina lottery, a household will have lost $2046….
…I did learn something new from the indictments — the origins of the phrase ‘weapons of mass destruction’. It turns out, as reported by several news agencies, that Libby was the inventor of that phrase. I remember hearing the abbreviation for the first time, because it also happens to be my initials….