Yes, So are the days of our lives.
On Sep 11, 11:22 pm, rigsy03 <[email protected]> wrote:
> The most creative program I watched this week was "Warplane" on PBS.
> Utterly amazing and inspiring!// Who is being "used"- the professor or
> the student? Academia reminds me of Hollywood sometimes.
>
> On Sep 10, 5:14 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.- Hide quoted
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