> Funny you should mention CCAC. I was helping the daughter of a friend, who > was a freshman this year. She was taking a "beginning" sewing and design > class; only problem is, it wasn't a beginning class at all. I spent most > of the year teaching her all the basics of sewing and clothing > construction. But I didn't have enough time to teach the class in > parallel. So this summer, she'll be taking a sewing class at a community > college to learn the basics. So, her parents are spending 50K a year for a > school that is not really giving her what she needs. > > Perhaps CCAC thinks you can teach design without learning the basics of > garment construction. Interesting. > > Joanna ----------
I should explain. Yesterday I was reading two essays on the Humanities. First, one by Earl Shorris. Thanks to Louis Proyect for introducing him. The second was by Mark Edmundson who taught at Uni Virginia.. Shorris started a school to teach classic humanities to the down and out and had wonderful sounding students. Edmundson is here: http://www.ljhammond.com/essay.htm ``A college student getting a liberal arts education ponders filling out a questionnaire that includes an opportunity for him to evaluate his instructor. At times it appears that the purpose of his education is just to entertain him. Today is evaluation day in my Freud class, and everything has changed. The class meets twice a week, late in the afternoon, and the clientele, about fifty undergraduates, tends to drag in and slump, looking disconsolate and a little lost, waiting for a jump start. '' So I was thinking about students. What are they like these days. I see them everyday because my neighborhood is south campus with a lot of student housing. Superficially they seem like a very uninspired lot with giant egos. CG _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
