Brandon Shirasago Killen

[Brandon Shirasago Killen @bkillenwrites]

@mcmansionhell Not my experience of music school... Theory and history were separate, but equal in terms of credits. Musicology electives would cover social or material aspects. Theory, I felt, traced the history of Western music almost too neatly. Would of liked more modern theory, sooner.

[Brandon Shirasago Killen @bkillenwrites]

@mcmansionhell @dwaldenwrites Or a question of objectives. I teach Plato's cave in a gen-ed course to make them grapple with the complexities of their education/ignorance & to stretch their critical acumen. Do I need to spoon-feed facts or offer an array of readings? Seems it might hinder that goal...

[Brandon Shirasago Killen @bkillenwrites]

@HenryEOliver It is for this constellation of folks: https://t.co/DJaEu7zTEj

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[Brandon Shirasago Killen @bkillenwrites]

@TheOptimisticC3 @jennfrey @aaron_renn @hadleyonfire @LogresInstitute Ugh. Renn might reflect influence from those involved with "Agoge Classical" (American Reformer is another nexus). One of the main criticisms: Great Books are too ecumenical and don't concentrate enough towards a particular cultural "regime." Douthat made a similar tweet today.

[Brandon Shirasago Killen @bkillenwrites]

@pinkiedulac "Mordre" is French for "to bite"... can be used as in "to take the bait." A well-known tendency in language change is to soften hard consonant to softer consonants (e.g. faedar becomes father). It has to account for the slang somewhat.

[Brandon Shirasago Killen @bkillenwrites]

@zenahitz

[Brandon Shirasago Killen @bkillenwrites]

@DanielCowper The very earliest editions might have used higher quality paper materials! This wasn’t feasible for Dent in later decades.

[Brandon Shirasago Killen @bkillenwrites]

@vjoshuaadams Seems a bit l’art pour l’art…

[John Attridge @John_Attridge]

Academic writing should be addressed neither to the public nor to other academics. It should be addressed to a single interlocutor with whom you have a petty rivalry and whose work you are trying to discredit

[Brandon Shirasago Killen @bkillenwrites]

@patdennis The state’s constitution and culture in the 20th c. highly valued stewardship of public lands and small landholders against the encroachment of both corporate exploitation and federal control/influence. It created a breed of pragmatic Dem Senators: Mansfield, Melcher, Baucus.

[Brandon Shirasago Killen @bkillenwrites]

@wapella @erica_d_stevens Flag on the play: question offsides. Uncoordinated deflection to a point not made.

[Brandon Shirasago Killen @bkillenwrites]

@wapella @erica_d_stevens Imagine teaching a young student on Monday whose last substantive meal was last Friday’s school lunch… Or a teen who works far too many hours so they and their family can eat… fatigue, resentment, stigma compounds. It makes the environment hard for everyone.

[Brandon Shirasago Killen @bkillenwrites]

@thinkthelimit @zenahitz

[Brandon Shirasago Killen @bkillenwrites]

@realPeterCrerar I staged managed a classical music venue for four years in college. One man who attended everything would always corral me backstage for extra programs for his “archive.”

[sententiae antiquae @sentantiq]

It would be nice if all of these political and silicon valley luminaries who suddenly care so much about Homer and ancient literature would advocate for funding their study in k-12 education and public higher ed instead of championing AI and other nonsense

[Steve Price @Steve_R_Price]

Imagine back in the heyday of online essay mills, if the push had been to teach students to use essay mills ethically and to develop essay mill strategies. Or if we had accepted that essay mills were okay for grammar and organization but taught Ss to make the essays their own.

[Brandon Shirasago Killen @bkillenwrites]

@dwaldenwrites Is this from her Paradoxes of Education?

[Diabetic of Enlightenment @dee_of_e]

I actually do run my lit classes the way conservatives want. I read aloud the last sentence of House of Mirth and we simply appreciate the beauty of the language. Then I add, “Lily Bart’s degenerate hypergamous lifestyle was her downfall.” my students cheer and I scream a slur

[David Madden @davidjmadden]

Universities don't need to "teach students to use AI well." The whole point of AI is that it doesn't require any skill. Universities *should* teach students how to write and research on their own, and foster an ethic of shaming people who outsource their basic ability to think.