Re: snapshots -Reply

Kenneth Robert Wright (kright@OREGON.UOREGON.EDU)
Wed, 17 Jan 1996 17:04:48 -0800

Of course I don't merely spout out my cute little saying as if it means
anything out of some context, Nick. I usually use it, and I don't use it
that often, when my students are stubornly trying to get me to tell them
what to think about or to write about a certain topic.

Besides, to regurgitate an old chestnut, just because I'm paranoid
doesn't mean no one's out to get me.

Ken

On Wed, 17 Jan 1996, Nick Carbone wrote:

> Recent maxims....
>
> Your teacher may be wrong; think for yourself.
> >
> > Ken Wright
> > kright@oregon.uoregon.edu
> >
> > > - question everything
> > > - do not take anything for granted
> > > - do not take anything at face value
> > > - question everything
> > >
> > > Bee
> > > Ben Ament <amentb01@tigger.stcloud.msus.edu>
>
> I understand the call for this, the need to be diligent and to think
> independently. I also assume both Ken and Ben temper these maxims in the
> fuller context of their classrooms. Still, I want to point out that
> there's also a need to know when to trust someone, when skepticism gets
> in the way, when diligence untempered becomes parnoia. I guess I'm
> thinking of Wayne Booth's _Modern Dogma and the Rhetoric of Assent_ and
> also with one eye on the dangers of polarized positions.
>
>
>
> Nick Carbone
> nickc@english.umass.edu
> nickc@marlboro.edu
>