On Sun, Aug 2, 2009 at 6:17 AM, Ant McWatt <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > > Well John, Oxford University is full of North Americans (at least of a > European heritage) so no doubt your daughter would soon feel at home there. > Her Mom is British, (Hey Lu!) which is part of why she wants to get in touch with mother-soil. > The tutor to student ratio is relatively low and is the key for why Oxford > is so successful academically. Moreover, as with Cambridge University, the > putrid touch of “neo-con”/Thatcherite ideology (so beloved by that notorious > sinner here, Platt Holden) has had less effect on the independence of mind > at Oxford compared to the other, less fortunate, Higher Education > institutions in the UK. > I don't know why she got it into her head. I think she likes the sound of the name "awks ferd". She's a 15 year old teenage girl, for goodness sake. I will say she seems to have the intellectual capacity and she definitely has the independence of spirit. But no real drive or ambition. Hmmmm... I wonder where that comes from. As far as MOQ saints are concerned, I think that title should go to Arlo who > has patiently dealt with Platt’s dogmatic radio talk show propaganda at MOQ > Discuss for years now or maybe to Horse, who has run the whole show here for > even longer. Now even Platt wouldn’t argue with that latter nomination! > Now of course there are "true" saints, and then there are the socially recognized ones; not always a one-to-one correspondence, eh? Did you ever want to argue with a dogmatic radio talk show host? Well good ole Platt gives you that opportunity. Saint Platt. Acolyte John > Moq_Discuss mailing list > Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. > http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org > Archives: > http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ > http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/ > Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
