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Category Archives: school
Jazzbo’s Charity Concert
Junior year 1954-55) a buddy ran for high school office. His platform was to bring the Duke to South Side High School for a charity concert. The Ellington Band All stars all Duke sits at the piano. Johnny Hodges stands … Continue reading
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pk’s School Bestiary
A free people wouldn’t need to know my personal school experiences to know that compulsory state-run “education” and freedom are incompatible. I believe further that political (and cultural) control of public information is incompatible with long-term survival. That’s a basic … Continue reading
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Army “Intelligence” Test
The draft board conscripted me through Whitehall Street Induction Station, First Army, downtown NY. Real quick for the moment: There were three exams: 1) physical 2) “intelligence” 3) moral. For the first a guy in white sticks his finger up … Continue reading
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pk’s Ph.D. Orals Scrapbook
2006 07 17 Poking around in Arthur O. Lovejoy’s Essays in the History of Ideas, his history of deism in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth centuries put contemporary academic hubris into an enlightening perspective: The presumption of the universal accessibility and … Continue reading
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SFCC
I’ve not repeated all of Knatz.com’s pk school stories that had been posted by 2006. There are of course still some to tell: some that are as important as any: except perhaps for my report on my PhD orals experience. … Continue reading
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MLA Meets Americana
pk School Stories, FLEX (Deschooling) Years The Modern Language Association is many things, but for the purposes of this narrative, the MLA is a meat market. The MLA meets annually around Christmas time. Papers are read … but the bulk … Continue reading
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Why Was I Fired?
Recreating (and advancing) pk’s censored domains: Macroinformation.org & Knatz.com / Teaching / Society /Social Order / HierCon / School Stories / I’ve told part of this but here’s a new perspective with never before told details: I taught English at … Continue reading
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Doves Fired
Recreating (and advancing) pk’s censored domains: Macroinformation.org & Knatz.com / Teaching / Society / Social Order / HierCon / School Stories / Why Was I Fired? (All the non-tenured critics of the war were fired!) (And all with tenure had … Continue reading
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Bookstore Committee
pk School Stories: Teaching College Bookstore Committee Why You Can’t Get There From Here When the Colby College English Chairman, Mark Benbow, hired me, he emphasized that he was doing everything he could to consider my finishing my Ph.D.: I … Continue reading
English Department Meeting
pk School Stories, Teaching Years English Department Meeting Once again: Colby’s English Department, with twenty-one members that year (c. 1968), was far and away the biggest and most powerful part of the college. The psychology department consisted of one; fine … Continue reading
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