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MattBurkeIntro 7 - 29 Jun 2015 - Main.MarkDrake
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When I was a teacher, I loved the job, but loathed the profession. The job, impossible to do without loving it, the profession, impossible to love for its brokenness, loathsome were its contradictions. Neither, then, to love nor to loathe, but to strive for lovelessness, for dispassion, for contradictions of the mind, not the heart—save the heart for its own endeavors. Thus, to prove Camus neither right nor wrong, but to bathe my labor in cynical acid, to be not Hamlet (nor was meant to be), but to do, and that alone I want—something I can do. |
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MattBurkeIntro 6 - 30 Jan 2015 - Main.MattBurke
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> | When I was a teacher, I loved the job, but loathed the profession. The job, impossible to do without loving it, the profession, impossible to love for its brokenness, loathsome were its contradictions. Neither, then, to love nor to loathe, but to strive for lovelessness, for dispassion, for contradictions of the mind, not the heart—save the heart for its own endeavors. Thus, to prove Camus neither right nor wrong, but to bathe my labor in cynical acid, to be not Hamlet (nor was meant to be), but to do, and that alone I want—something I can do. | | | -- By MattBurke - 27 Jan 2015
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MattBurkeIntro 5 - 28 Jan 2015 - Main.MattBurke
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> | When I was a teacher, I loved the job, but loathed the profession, and law school was my exodus. Exoduses often lead to wandering. Fine then, I'll consent to wander—to wander a bit in the law. Wordsworth, like a cloud, discovered daffodils on his wander, but I, I will content myself with a profession I don't loathe. | | | -- By MattBurke - 27 Jan 2015 |
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MattBurkeIntro 4 - 28 Jan 2015 - Main.MattBurke
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I enrolled in law school after being a teacher for five years—an avocation I loved (and one at which I was talented), but a profession I despised. I want to get, and have gotten, from law school something for which law school is sufficient but not necessary: An exodus from education.
But you haven't gotten
out of education. You have changed roles, leaving the teaching work
to someone else, and—presumably—going back to enjoying
learning.
That for which law school is likely necessary and hopefully sufficient: I want to get the ability to conscript the law—that is, to work with and within it to achieve desirable outcomes for myself individually and for society at large in relation to my values.
You are at your most precise in your comment about fonts. (Not your most accurate, however, because given cascading style sheets, you can't really associate anything with a font, because you don't know what font the user is reading with, even if you think you've defined the answer in the HTML you wrote.) You are somewhat less precise but still clear about your desire to stop teaching. But you are entirely imprecise with respect to what you want from law school. (Using the law to achieve desirable outcomes for yourself and your society in relation to your values could not be more generic if it tried, don't you think?)
In my view, the way to improve the draft is to remove the extraneous
and concentrate on the central. Try starting with a sentence
addressing the question directly and go on from there.
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MattBurkeIntro 3 - 28 Jan 2015 - Main.EbenMoglen
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<-- I've adjusted the font from default to reflect two "personal" associations which I here assume for "personal" reasons. First, I associate "personal" with informal. Second, I associate serifed fonts with formal and sans-serifed fonts with informal. The deduction from these propositions is evident. --> | | | I enrolled in law school after being a teacher for five years—an avocation I loved (and one at which I was talented), but a profession I despised. I want to get, and have gotten, from law school something for which law school is sufficient but not necessary: An exodus from education. | |
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out of education. You have changed roles, leaving the teaching work
to someone else, and—presumably—going back to enjoying
learning.
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You are at your most precise in your comment about fonts. (Not your most accurate, however, because given cascading style sheets, you can't really associate anything with a font, because you don't know what font the user is reading with, even if you think you've defined the answer in the HTML you wrote.) You are somewhat less precise but still clear about your desire to stop teaching. But you are entirely imprecise with respect to what you want from law school. (Using the law to achieve desirable outcomes for yourself and your society in relation to your values could not be more generic if it tried, don't you think?)
In my view, the way to improve the draft is to remove the extraneous
and concentrate on the central. Try starting with a sentence
addressing the question directly and go on from there.
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MattBurkeIntro 2 - 27 Jan 2015 - Main.MattBurke
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I enrolled in law school after being a teacher for five years—an avocation I loved (and one at which I was talented), but a profession I despised. I want to get, and have gotten, from law school something for which law school is sufficient but not necessary: An exodus from education. |
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I enrolled in law school after being a teacher for five years—an avocation I loved (and one at which I was talented), but a profession I despised. I want to get, and have gotten, from law school something for which law school is sufficient but not necessary: An exodus from education.
That for which law school is likely necessary and hopefully sufficient: I want to get the ability to conscript the law—that is, to work with and within it to achieve desirable outcomes for myself individually and for society at large in relation to my values.
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