Enough with the commentary and analysis. Make way for criticism! Went back to grad school today, plunging right in with English 602: “Critical Theory and Literary Criticism.” U Md. let me take classes in graduate school on “advanced special status.” My tax dollars at work! (We’ll see if I’m still “special” after 14 weeks.) My fellow students are a nice mix –theater majors, poets, comp. lit scholars, and a few brash young PhD students who naturally knew the secret to finding the textbook before the first class, even before the prof. posted the info. The professor is, well, a self-described Theory “Jane” (not Jock, thank you very much) whose first hour lecture seemed devoted to scaring us into dropping the class. I have confidence that my classmates will stay put, or even urge their friends to register! We’ll bloody well learn from divine Professor S!
March 12, 2008 at 8:42 am
Endless writers have explored the returning adult education experience, but there is nothing equal to the experience of being able to seek knowledge intensely, hopefully from the best, without the ego anxiety of the first time around. If I could communicate to my children the absolute joy of learning without fear of judgement, I would. But then, they wouldn’t have teen memories, eh?