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ramblin_rosieSorry about dropping off the face of the earth--am visiting Mum and Chappy and haven't been logged in on my account. I have been keeping up with things, though, when I've been online.
Caspian fic will be forthcoming when I figure out how exactly to work the ending and feel up to getting it typed out (been pretty achy the last few days).
Happy Memorial Day--hug a veteran!
EDIT: Almost forgot the quote from my prelims reading that I had to share:
There is still another error, hardly less serious than that just mentioned [neglecting studies], and it must be avoided with the greatest care: certain persons, while they omit nothing which ought to be read, nonetheless do not know how to give each art what belongs to it, but, while treating one, lecture on them all. In grammar they discourse about the theory of syllogisms; in dialectic they inquire into inflectional cases; and what is still more ridiculous, in discussing the title of a book they practically cover the whole work, and, by their third lecture, they have hardly finished with the incipit. It is not the teaching of others that they accomplish in this way, but the showing off of their own knowledge. Would that they seemed to everone as they seem to me! Only consider how perverse this practice is. Surely the more you collect superfluous details the less you are able to grasp or to retain useful matters.
--Hugh of St. Victor, Didascalion 3.5
I nearly laughed out loud when I read that paragraph--I've had profs who taught like that!
Caspian fic will be forthcoming when I figure out how exactly to work the ending and feel up to getting it typed out (been pretty achy the last few days).
Happy Memorial Day--hug a veteran!
EDIT: Almost forgot the quote from my prelims reading that I had to share:
There is still another error, hardly less serious than that just mentioned [neglecting studies], and it must be avoided with the greatest care: certain persons, while they omit nothing which ought to be read, nonetheless do not know how to give each art what belongs to it, but, while treating one, lecture on them all. In grammar they discourse about the theory of syllogisms; in dialectic they inquire into inflectional cases; and what is still more ridiculous, in discussing the title of a book they practically cover the whole work, and, by their third lecture, they have hardly finished with the incipit. It is not the teaching of others that they accomplish in this way, but the showing off of their own knowledge. Would that they seemed to everone as they seem to me! Only consider how perverse this practice is. Surely the more you collect superfluous details the less you are able to grasp or to retain useful matters.
--Hugh of St. Victor, Didascalion 3.5
I nearly laughed out loud when I read that paragraph--I've had profs who taught like that!
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Date: 2008-05-26 07:45 pm (UTC)*hugs you too*
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Date: 2008-05-26 07:47 pm (UTC)