...and thus the original Greek concept of the Patron... On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 6:14 PM, Slip Disc <[email protected]> wrote:
> > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
