Posted in culture of peace, peace, teaching, war on November 12, 2007 | No Comments »
“As the death count rises for Iraqis and Afghanis, it is apparent that at its most basic level, these are their wars. It’s essential that our curriculum confronts this fact truthfully. War is not Hollywood, war is not a macho presidential boast that we’ll ’smoke ‘em out.’
War is life left empty and twisted and brutalized. [...]
Posted in education, teaching on January 30, 2007 | 1 Comment »
All anyone could find in it:
a bed lumpy with books
old essays by students
old books
by former students
old checks
from students repaying loans
never cashed
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“He was a university professor who ‘never earned a doctorate, taught a graduate seminar, or wrote a book’ He never married and, after entering Notre Dame as a freshman, never again lived outside a campus [...]
