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MattBurkeFirstEssay 18 - 29 Apr 2015 - Main.MattBurke
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| | | 2. In which the role of the law and law studentry in the law student's past is unearthed | |
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< | First, old memories visit the law student. With his mother at her office, he’s bored. A man offers to shake his hand. They shake. After, the man gives the future law student a piece of candy. The student’s mother explains: “He’s a partner.” This is the law student’s earliest memory of that word. When the future law student hears the word again—this time in its general usage—he experiences the dissonance common to learning children: “Partner” means “man with authority and a distant affect.” How can it also mean “companion” and “friend”? | >
> | First, old memories visit the law student. With his mother at her office, he’s bored. A man offers to shake his hand. They shake. After, the man gives the law student, then only a future law student, a piece of candy. The student’s mother explains: “He’s a partner.” This is the law student’s earliest memory of that word. When the future law student hears the word again—this time in its general usage—he experiences the dissonance common to learning children: “Partner” means “man with authority and a distant affect.” How can it also mean “companion” and “friend”? | | | Second, before the law student began practicing law studentry, he was a teacher. He taught high school history. His curriculum contained a lesson about a case, Brown v. Board, which he later read for “ConLaw.” After explaining to his students things they already knew, he would ask them a question whose answer was already known. He would ask: “Why, at this school, are the only white people teachers?” | | | 3. In which the path of the law is found to lead past law studentry | |
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< | First, just after Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address, dedicating a cemetery for some who died in _Dread Scott_’s “consequences for the Nation,” he remarked to a friend: “That speech won’t scour,” as a plow baked in Illinois mud won’t scour. | >
> | First, just after Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address, dedicating a cemetery for some who died in Dread Scott’s “consequences for the Nation,” he remarked to a friend: “That speech won’t scour,” as a plow baked in Illinois mud won’t scour. | | | Today, Lincoln is in a vault buried 10 feet into the Illinois mud. But his words aren't buried. I know—I had to memorize them when I was in fourth grade, as, I think, do many fourth graders. |
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