Comments on: Psychology of graduate education: Failure avoidance http://decasia.org/academic_culture/2009/02/psychology-of-graduate-education-failure-avoidance/ an anthropological look at universities in france and the united states Fri, 10 Sep 2010 22:55:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Nate http://decasia.org/academic_culture/2009/02/psychology-of-graduate-education-failure-avoidance/comment-page-1/#comment-912 Nate Tue, 05 May 2009 02:16:46 +0000 http://decasia.org/academic_culture/?p=461#comment-912 Another fine post I missed...! There's some Max Stirner quote about teachers, something like "having been licked into shape they now lick others." I think that's a pretty good assessment of a lot of my experiences in higher ed. Have you ever read Jacques Ranciere's book The Ignorant Schoolmaster? He makes a pretty similar point to this. Also, I can't recall if I showed these to you, but these are two posts I wrote a long while back, just as I was going back to university, one right before went and one right after, I was trying to get clear on elements of the dynamic you discuss here. http://whatinthehell.blogsome.com/2006/01/05/is-lexical-rigidity/ http://whatinthehell.blogsome.com/2006/07/10/is-the-structurally-absent-third/ take care, Nate Another fine post I missed…! There’s some Max Stirner quote about teachers, something like “having been licked into shape they now lick others.” I think that’s a pretty good assessment of a lot of my experiences in higher ed. Have you ever read Jacques Ranciere’s book The Ignorant Schoolmaster? He makes a pretty similar point to this.
Also, I can’t recall if I showed these to you, but these are two posts I wrote a long while back, just as I was going back to university, one right before went and one right after, I was trying to get clear on elements of the dynamic you discuss here.

http://whatinthehell.blogsome.com/2006/01/05/is-lexical-rigidity/

http://whatinthehell.blogsome.com/2006/07/10/is-the-structurally-absent-third/

take care,
Nate

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