Remember I showed you a close-up of his “sporran” last week? Young Son’s pipe major has been impressing upon him that the whole outfit is a military uniform, so just for fun, I checked out the official U.S. Coast Guard Pipe Band Uniform regulations for an example of how one properly wears this intriguing item about which none of us ever learned in school! Read the rest of this entry »
Purdue U for Understatement? One for COD and Meg
27 04 2009“Mr. Karpicke, of Purdue, agrees that scholars should be sensitive to real-world complexities. ”
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Seriously, this is for all Thinking Parents, not just to pick on Purdue but on all college professors, so lofty in their scholarly certainty about what students (literally, studiers) should be doing and how they should be doing it . . .if the masters don’t really know, is College just some elaborate professional hazing ritual, some sort of scholastic alchemy? Read the rest of this entry »
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