Re: pushing metaphors of half bakedness

From: Phillip White (Phillip_White@ceo.cudenver.edu)
Date: Mon Oct 22 2001 - 17:47:12 PDT


Bill B. responding to Eva scrobe:
>And don't forget the closely guarded strains of starter dough that gives
>each
>baker's bread its uniqueness.

        yep! here i am perhaps a bit of a sourdough sponge -

        i've just returned from a week in salt lake city - and came home to a
great many messages to catch up on - and was struck by Martin's comment
that pointed out that school math ain't mathematicians' math -

        and it went through my head that

        school poetry ain't poets' poetry
        school history ain't historians' history
        school reading ain't readers' reading
        school writing ain't authors' writing
        school research ain't scholars' research or scientists' research (my
most favorite statement i heard from a teacher in condemnation of a
particular hands-on science program was that it wasn't any good because
you couldn't predict how the experiments would come out, "Sometimes they
come out all wrong!" she compained.
        
        in short -

        school work is for school work

        really no different than the rest of the world

        IBM's work is for IBM.

        The work of General Motors is for General Motors.

        etc.

phillip

   
* * * * * * * *
* *

The English noun "identity" comes, ultimately, from the
Latin adverb "identidem", which means "repeatedly."
The Latin has exactly the same rhythm as the English,
buh-BUM-buh-BUM - a simple iamb, repeated; and
"identidem" is, in fact, nothing more than a
reduplication of the word "idem", "the same":
"idem(et)idem". "Same(and) same". The same,
repeated. It is a word that does exactly what
it means.

                          from "The Elusive Embrace" by Daniel
Mendelsohn.

phillip white
doctoral student http://ceo.cudenver.edu/~hacms_lab/index.html
scrambling a dissertation
denver, colorado
phillip_white@ceo.cudenver.edu



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