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FreeSpeechHowwhywhether 13 - 26 Jan 2008 - Main.AndrewGradman
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"Moralists and philosophers in America are not obliged to conceal their opinions under the veil of allegory; but before they venture upon a harsh truth, they say: "We are aware that the people whom we are addressing are too superior to the weaknesses of human nature to lose the command of their temper for an instant. We should not hold this language if we were not speaking to men whom their virtues and their intelligence render more worthy of freedom than all the rest of the world." | | | I guess there's no "wrong" type of content, but my point is that the general tone of conversation seems odd. I sort of expected more discussion specifically on ideas relevant to our readings, notices of other references to check out to expand understanding, etc. We so far have some of that, but we also have a lot of elaborate discussion on classroom management, predictions about what Eben is feeling or "wants" us to say/think, and general venting. I'm not trying to criticize, but let's think about this. Especially because, although participation in wiki discussions is probably limited by many factors (time, general interest, comfort with the technology, etc) I think the direction that the existing conversations take will influence how many people participate in this community at all.
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Barb, thanks for your constant support. Makalika, I admire what you say. You burst my bubble in a tenth of the time it took me to blow it up. My response is, To take on a "consilient" view of the class and the world it's about, I have conflated the class's form with its content. The use of the TWiki itself, and everything else unconventional about the class management, is part of the education. Everything in this class is so new, to legal education and to us, that it must be an experiment. For better or for worse, I have started a dialogue that will permit us to EXPERIENCE firsthand the ideas we're talking about. That seemed to me to be the preexisting theme of the course. I suppose I might have asked privately, but I also assumed that in WikiCulture? , Secrets Secrets Are No Fun.
Your last sentence is the most compelling. It does teach me a lesson, which is that I should stop asking meta-questions of "What is this class about," and confront the material head-on. Still, at some early point I internalized the idea that the class is precisely About Questioning Authority. It's entirely possible I just brought that assumption to the table -- a chip on my shoulder. Either way, it makes me hesitate to take any one stand against the material. It makes me schizophrenic. Really, can anyone in this class distinguish, for certain, the Form from the Content?
P.S. Eben, there is one thing I'd like to apologize for, and that is setting a precedent for referring to you in the third person. I need to fire my proofreader.
-- AndrewGradman - 26 Jan 2008 | | | rms
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