Before I was born my father was in the military. And when I was about seven he retired. Most children who parents are in the military might have to move a lot, but unfortunately that did not happen for me. As I grew my father always told that joining the military was the best thing …
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Hard Core
I was going to talk about core requirements Monday, but I ended up on a tirade about Humanities classes. So here I am completing the thought today. American universities are very much focused on a rounded education. While you are getting your “introduction to whatever you want to do for the rest of your life” …
Banned Book Week:
This week is Banned Book week. I was explaining this to my daughter. At first her interest was piqued, until I pointed out that she was already reading a book in class from the list, “To Kill a Mockingbird”, and then she lost interest. While I love that book, she is not a reader, except …
The Humanity of it All
Yesterday I mentioned one of the University System of Georgia’s requirements, that each student take a year of foreign language courses. In addition to that, we all have to take a year of humanities- which is not such a bad idea, since college is supposed to broaden our minds and stuff. However, the idea to …
En Français!
There was an SNL skit back in the day- a high school French teacher corrected his students when they failed to speak in a ridiculous sing-song accent. Adam Sandler got straight A’s just saying nonsense in the proper tone. That really doesn’t fly in 2000-level college French, just in case you thought it might. All …
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