I guess it's my fault for being out of touch with xmca for so long, to be
consistently misunderstood when I do speak. I am not an academic. As an
employee of the University of Melbourne, I have colleagues who are, that's all!
Andy
At 09:28 AM 8/09/2001 -0600, you wrote:
>andy writes:
> >I'm not a teacher. I phrase the issues about genuinely human
> >relationships
> >in terms of relationships between academics and students and learning
> >because it's very easy to understand that way, and especially among my
> >academic colleagues,
>
>
>how do you manage to be an academic and not a teacher?
>envious,
>diane
>
>************************************************************************************
>"Waves of hands, hesitations at street corners, someone dropping a
>cigarette in a gutter - all are stories. But which is the true story? That
>I do not know. Hence I keep my phrases hung like clothes in a cupboard,
>waiting for someone to wear them. Thus waiting, thus speculating, making
>this note and then another, I do not cling to life."
>Virginia Woolf, The Waves, 1931.
>
> (...life clings to me...)
>*************************************************************************************
>diane celia hodges
>university of british columbia, centre for the study of curriculum and
>instruction
>vancouver, bc
>mailing address: 46 broadview avenue, montreal, qc, H9R 3Z2
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