"Civilisations in decline are consistently characterised by a tendency towards standardisation and uniformity."What more can I say?
A weblog for Pete Ellertsen's mass communications students at Benedictine University Springfield.
Sunday, April 02, 2006
I'll bet this won't be on the test ...
A wonderful quote from Arnold Joseph Toynbee, longtime professor of Greek language and history at the University of London and author of a 12-volume Study of History that detailed the rise and fall of some 20-odd civilizations, cited in the March issue of BBC History magazine. And one the U.S. Commission on the Future of Higher Education well might pay heed to:
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- Pete
- Springfield (Ill.), United States
- I'm a retired English, journalism and cultural studies teacher at Springfield College in Illinois (acquired by Benedictine University and subsequently closed). I coordinate jam sessions for the "Clayville Pioneer Academy of Music" at Clayville Historic Site and the Prairieland Strings dulcimer club, and I sing in the choir and the contemporary praise team at Peace Lutheran Church in Springfield. On Hogfiddle I post links and video clips for our sessions and workshops on the mountain dulcimer (a.k.a. "hog fiddle"), as well as research notes on folklore and cultural studies, hymnody and traditional Anglo-Celtic and Scandinavian music. I also posted assignments and readings in my interdisciplinary humanities classes. The Mackerel Wrapper (now on hiatus), carried assignments and readings for my mass comm. students. I started teaching b/log when I chaired SCI-Benedictine's assessment committee, and reopened it as the privatization of public schools grew increasingly troubling and closer to home.
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