tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4008006782907969381.post3322126592587455909..comments2024-01-01T01:47:59.449+02:00Comments on Yaacov Lozowick's Ruminations: Rumination on Higher EducationYaacovhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12835192312242961481noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4008006782907969381.post-88628822907112285592010-02-22T13:49:05.135+02:002010-02-22T13:49:05.135+02:00Hey Sergio,
I also want one copy
Plz, send me a...Hey Sergio,<br /><br />I also want one copy <br /><br />Plz, send me a copy also<br /><br />Thanks<br /><br />Jason - Student on <a href="http://www.centennialcollege.ca" rel="nofollow">Toronto college</a>Jasonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4008006782907969381.post-67759726158274301772010-02-09T00:33:44.630+02:002010-02-09T00:33:44.630+02:00Yaacov,
I've sent you the pdf file of it.
Al...Yaacov,<br /><br />I've sent you the pdf file of it.<br /><br />All the best,<br /><br />SergioSergionoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4008006782907969381.post-87920997052662010142010-02-08T23:43:59.668+02:002010-02-08T23:43:59.668+02:00Sergio -
It seems I need a password to read the f...Sergio -<br /><br />It seems I need a password to read the full version. Can you send me a copy?<br />yaacov dot lozowick at yahoo dot comYaacovhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12835192312242961481noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4008006782907969381.post-51861907470538751302010-02-08T15:30:38.394+02:002010-02-08T15:30:38.394+02:00Dear Yaacov,
You might be interested in the paper
...Dear Yaacov,<br />You might be interested in the paper<br />"Science, dullness and truth: a rejoinder"<br />at http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19942352<br />which discusses some issues related to this subject. Comments welcome :)<br /><br />Regards,<br /><br />Sergiosergionoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4008006782907969381.post-61945670109298808552010-02-08T14:09:07.783+02:002010-02-08T14:09:07.783+02:00Mr. Lozowick,
the question I keep asking myself wh...Mr. Lozowick,<br />the question I keep asking myself whenever I get cranky about life as it today is: <br />what has changed (during my lifetime) and what is the same old ...<br /><br />as it happened I just stopped reading a book on a (history) subject - link below - that should have been interesting and that probably came out of some research job. Also I assume that it comes pretty close to what is worrying you about your doctor theses. <br /><br />(off topic the author claims that in early 16th century Strasbourg the populace was plagued by usury by the clergy and outraged at the CLERGY for it! - never read that before but he sounds very plausible on that one to me) <br /><br />After having endured annoyance and boredom by the author who is (when he lets himself write and not just quote and report) pretty good with language I concluded that it is because he does not dare to say I with a big capital I. <br />Instead of using all that reading and studying he has done to come up with a colorful engrossing description of how it must have been like he stays glued to his sources, dips into neuro-science jumps to Malaysia or Kenia or centuries back and forth. And when he speculates he does it with a really annoying "we may be sure" "we must conclude" etc. In short it is more important to him to come up with a theory (to impress other academics?) then to spin a good and truthful yarn. <br /><br />That said I would amend your "relate to humans" to that they seem to get trained to never relate to themselves, their guts, their own experiences, their own unique knowledge of life, their own perceptions i.e. they are not supposed to check whether what they find out in research synchs with their reality.<br /><br />The academics I have worked for during the last 15 years of my working life were not from the humanities. As to them I asked myself again and again how they dealt with their decline in status by which I mean in my youth they would have done only work for which their extensive training was a pre-requisite, they were considered to be much too expensive to spend their working hours performing menial tasks like copying data out of files etc. And it got worse during the last years when they kept themselves busy with tasks an experienced paralegal would have felt degraded by (not as a person but with an eye on how to lobby for the next raise)<br /><br />Since I got hooked up with podcasts I tried a number of iTunes U offers and didn't finish most of them, some because they were not good enough but the majority because the professors kept ridiculing their students sometimes to the point of sneering at them.<br /><br />I guess once you have been intimidated and put down in this way you strive to deliver only theses which show obedience to rules established by your professor who has made it clear that he doesn't consider you to be a person whose ideas about a pile of facts maybe interesting. <br /><br />On the other hand quite often when I listen to the BBC's Thinking Allowed program where seemingly very young academics get to talk about their (sociology) studies I feel really good about all those curious articulate and independently thinking people out there (and wonder why sociologists are so very often the most annoying I can hear on our radio)<br /><br />Silke<br /><br />http://www.amazon.de/Time-Dance-Die-Extraordinary-Dancing/dp/1848310536/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books-intl-de&qid=1265628727&sr=8-1Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com