Very interesting my friend. It's not that I don't concur but there are some areas of gray and, as you well know, shadows sometimes represent images that do not formulate the actual instance. Pat of course can have us dancing about the galaxy in search of substance but that does not negate the fact that we are still here in ME tossing about speculations. Students do have their delusions of achievement, some beyond logical comprehension. I'm just wondering how many voluptuous students passed your elevated bar via the path of libidinous satiation. Let's be real, for those of us who have been there, the opportunity for preferential treatment at certain levels can present a special challenge to the cerebral section usually designated to be lobotomized. Creativity is a method to achieve what one desires and sometimes one's desires can achieve what one wants to create.
On Sep 10, 4:22 pm, archytas <[email protected]> wrote: > I've appreciated the stuff on consciousness and other subjects we are > never going to 'disentangle' of late. Someone was 'threatening' more > on universes 'sprouting all over the place' from curved space-time > (pace moi or a string necktie party round at Pat's perhaps). All in > favour ... yet what about practical creative issues? > I used to teach a module called Creative Organisational Practices and > Analysis (where we could all come a croppa) - students from long ago > often remind me it was an oasis in the desert of business teaching. > There were no rules other than to produce a 5,000 word or equivalent > project that I could feasibly fit with my own rules of scamming the > bureaucracy. One story about the 'no rules' concerned the leisure > studies lecturer who considered hammock sleeping on the beach as a > clearly excellent project in leisure, though I did mention he was > finally sacked after fourteen years of practice. Some of the work was > so good it made Channel 4 television, some so bad I was reduced to > marking the laughs of derision. The bull in the syllabus was silver- > tongued and highly academic - an excellent cover for the FOFO teaching > style and deconstruct the penguin ethos. No one ever failed, but a > mark of 43.5% was covertly known to indicate my displeasure. One > survivor even wrote her final dissertation as a comparison of > management and the Dancing Masters of the Wu Li (high energy physics > meets organisational aesthetics). Some said I was swooned by her > prettiness, but she married a real physicist. The external examiner, > agreeing my mark, spluttered this was the most dangerous work he had > ever witnessed. Another did a photographic comparison of company > mergers and marriage - presented at an International conference, > topped only by another on the same theme by a Norwegian academic. > Teaching, such as it was, varied from presentations of my own papers > and people dragged in from the street, including Spike Milligan and > Hovis Presley, a prostitute and some amateur magicians. > I wonder what our views on practical creativity are? My course was > inspired in part by a Peter Anthony book 'The Foundation of > Management', opening with an assertion that the last place to send > talented young people to learn about business was a business school - > maybe they should spend time with scientists or Bohemians. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups ""Minds Eye"" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/minds-eye?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
