Anecdotal Evidence: `To Pursue Liberal Studies the Rest of Their Lives'

Anecdotal Evidence: `To Pursue Liberal Studies the Rest of Their Lives'
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`To Pursue Liberal Studies the Rest of Their Lives'

Since last spring I’ve been away from the classroom – the formal one, I mean, with blackboards, desks and discontent – and hardly miss it. I miss some of the kids but education in public schools is, at best, an inadvertence. Teaching is what you know and how you embody it -- a heresy to school administrators. Even a dumb kid knows when a teacher is bluffing, and thus learns early the importance of bluffing. In the third chapter of Walden, a punningly tart sentence Thoreau devoted to individuals has grown institutional in application:

“We spend more on almost any article of bodily aliment or ailment than on our mental ailment.”...
[...and very much less on spiritual 'ailments'...]