Tag Archive for 'Writing'

What is Critical Thinking Anyway and Why Must We Always Speak Good of It?

or those who don’t remember a similar title published in JAC some years back, mine riffs off of Victor Vitanza’s “Why the Wasteland Grows”
A friend who may or may not be reading this post and i were talking the other day, complaining and wishing and sharing our common ground about teaching with another. My friend [...]

From Cixous, as I think about Fall classes

1. To write is difficult anywhere. In the former USSR, in France, in China, in Brazil. For whom do I write? For the work, says Tsvetayeva. I don’t write in order to be loved, says Clarice Lispector. When I write, I become a thing, a wild beast. A wild beast doesn’t look back when it [...]