What, in heavens name, Peggy, led you to think I believed such a proposition? (Memorization = scholarship) Do you really think, knowing my writing on the list as well as you do, that I spent my 37 years teaching undergraduates to memorize? (I actually don’t HAVE a memory.) You are, or course, on the correct side of whatever war you are waging, but you are not waging it with me!
My only assertion was that formal advanced professional academic scholarship has SOMETHING to contribute to the mix. Santa Fe is a University town in every respect -- it has arts, galleries, music, theatre, a highly educated population (in part), institutes, policy making organizations, earnest discussion groups, research think tanks, undergraduate colleges, etc. and an abundance of good coffee, -- except that it does not have (many) graduate programs. The CUSF idea is to bring that last and final element of University life to Santa Fe. Since the City is already a university campus in many respects, let’s make that extra effort to become a City University. Read around in the (primitive and ill managed) website www.cusf.org, and see what you think. Help me make it better.
Nick
From: [hidden email] [mailto:[hidden email]] On Behalf Of peggy miller
Sent: Tuesday, October 12, 2010 9:16 AM
To: [hidden email]
Subject: [FRIAM] vol 88, issue 12
To Nick Thompson re "expertise"
The ability to memorize and quote things is not, in and of itself, expertise. It is simple a great ability to memorize.
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