Monthly Archives: November 2006

December 8, here I come

Posted on 2006/11/28 by ngilmour

The last sprint is on. I’ve taught my last class (we’re still meeting, but it’s all peer revision from here on out), Spenser class has seen its last meeting, and only four Latin and four Old English classes remain. I … Continue reading →

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Gearing up for Final Paper

Posted on 2006/11/25 by ngilmour

For the first semester in a long time, I’m only going to be working on one paper during the home stretch, and I’ve already got that half-written. I’m going to try to force myself through a Marxist history of early-modern … Continue reading →

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On Education and the End of the Semester

Posted on 2006/11/21 by ngilmour

We wrapped up the discussion part of the semester yesterday with a conversation about John Milton’s treatise “On Education.” As I usually do when I teach that fun little text, I started by having the class list all of the … Continue reading →

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The end of Republic

Posted on 2006/11/15 by ngilmour

It would be kind of cool if this blog post landed on some Star Wars fan’s google search. That aside, we actually finished up Monday with his bizarre section on reincarnation. I’m still not sure whether the story of Er … Continue reading →

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More Halloween Pictures

Posted on 2006/11/11 by ngilmour
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Halloweeen Pictures

Posted on 2006/11/11 by ngilmour
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Posted on 2006/11/10 by ngilmour

Just dug this Manning picture. Colts aren’t doing badly, eh?

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Better Ways

Posted on 2006/11/09 by ngilmour

We finished what I would call the ethical part of Republic in class yesterday, and I’m pleased with the bulk of the semester’s discussions. Even if some (or most) of the folks in my classes never pick up a copy … Continue reading →

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Tyranny

Posted on 2006/11/07 by ngilmour

We had some pretty good discussions yesterday in class. Plato finally got to the dictatorial personality and the dictatorial community. The contrast between the two is sharp: in a dictatorial society, the dictator is the most fearsome person Plato describes. … Continue reading →

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Freedom and choice

Posted on 2006/11/04 by ngilmour

I’ve got my routine down for teaching academic writing, but teaching philosophy is still before me. I tried to teach the philosophical distinctions between positive freedom/freedom-for and negative freedom/freedom-from yesterday, and I’m not sure I was clear at all. The … Continue reading →

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My Anti-Democratic Rant

Posted on 2006/11/02 by ngilmour

No, I’ve not become a Republican. At least not the kind that wears elephant pins. Yesterday in class I made up for my lost Thoreau time and took on the role of Plato, arguing with some force that for the … Continue reading →

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Library Thing

Posted on 2006/11/01 by ngilmour

My lovely readers might have noticed yet another toy on the sidebar. I discovered LibraryThing.com on Julie Clawson’s blog, and I’ve been fiddling with it intermittently since. Right now I’ve got the blog gizmo set to random because I don’t … Continue reading →

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