Related: the gatekeeping of knowledge via pricey research journals has to be one of the biggest "own goals" of academia, right? In terms of failing to build trust and purpose in higher education amongst society at-large?

A tale as old as time: it's so much easier to turn up the volume of moral panic rather than respond to valid, nuanced questions.

Would love to check this out!

Full piece here:

adrianneibauer.substack.com/p/fall-confe...

My initial post was definitely more targeted to what colleges themselves have become, with the two-tiered "thoughtful, in-person experience" v. "grab the $$$ and offer online credentials, too" dichotomy (and yes, I know this is an over-simplification)

But also agree with your point here!

The opening paragraph of Tuck Everlasting remains my all-time favorite passages in literature to introduce to and discuss with students. In 1 pge, Babbitt throws us into the natural world w/ the changing seasons. We see the month of August like a giant ferris wheel, “at the very top of summer.”

This. This. This!

To be able to tell one's own story? A form of power and also a form of survival, of coping (as Janie does later with Joe and then again, perhaps, with Tea Cake)

Understandable and, ultimately, human.

But what does it mean to live in a world surrounded by the "crayon enlargements" of others?

This is one of my favorite passages of Walden. I use it to teach enjambment. Groups of students create poems using mostly only these words. Every group always has a different poem. Then we look at the work the line breaks are doing in their creations. 📖

Night

The evil of mankind has one question their own identity. Everything that made them them, they no longer believe