[MD] Time IS runnin' out

[Ian Glendinning]

Oh no, I'm in short sharp response mode, sorry about the chatter folks
.... but you got me intrigued again ...

I agree with Mark ... the DQ University thread looks like a seam worth
mining ...
But why didn't I get the reference to the place name "Lessee" ?

Ian

On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 5:39 PM, John Carl <ridgecoyote at gmail.com> wrote:
> DQ University, Ian.  An actual place in Northern California that I drive
> past to visit my two younger daughters attending prep school and my one
> older daughter in her first year of college - a small abandoned desolate
> place with an intriguing name which troubles my dreams.
>
> Lessee, I had a heckuva time finding it.  I started the thread under
> "imaginings" which I didn't remember and wasn't much conducive to searching
> old archives... but I found it at last.
>
> Reposted for your pleasure; more follow-up in the ongoing thread that
> stemmed from this beginning, if you're interested.
>
>
> On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 10:59 PM, John Carl <ridgecoyote at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> "Civilization sends us out here to solve a great problem: i.e., how two
> races and cultures can be accommodated side by side.  And we fall to
> stock-speculation and wheat-raising and leave the problem to the political
> hack and the strong-lunged agitator."
>
>
> Letter of Royce, in 1870, to chancellor of brand new Berkely, complaining of
> California, but his point could be made about America today.
>
>
> But Platt asks a question: how?  We may talk of utopian better ways, but
> baby, you know we'd love to see the plan...    besides whining, what points
> can be made?
>
>
> I responded thus to Platt before, but more mention is needed of DQ
> University.
>
>
> The dream part imagining is whereby we communally design a curriculum for
> such.
>
>
> The dream continues in that those who currently are in charge of the actual
> DQ University, would be overwhelmed by the comprehensive Quality of our
> curriculum and would adopt it and begin training young people today in the
> ideas of yesterday we're going to need tomorrow.
>
>
> egad.  I'm already writing like an administrator.
>
>
> Of course its far-reaching and beyond any man's grasp.  But it's a good
> idea, and good ideas deserve an outworking of their ramifications.  So... I
> will get the ball rolling with some ideas for classes at DQ University.
>
>
> We start with Metaphysics 101.  This is because you need to understand the
> ground upon which your education is based.  This should be the first thing
> all students learn and the fact that it is not is only due to the
> status-quo, powers-that-be-in-charge, having a vested interest in covering
> up and hiding.  Not so at DQ University - which carries the principle of
> openness and honesty to a seemingly ridiculous degree.
>
>
> Metaphysics 101 will be conducted by a teacher reading to a class, with
> pauses for questions when anybody needs to ask a question.  The class will
> be as long as the students need to get through the required reading, with no
> set time limit.   The grades will be pass or fail.  If you persist in
> sticking with the class and reaching the communal consensus of
> understanding, you are ready to move on.  If you fail, you have to keep
> playing until you succeed or drop out or do something different.  I think
> all classes should be like that.
>
> After a firm grounding in Metaphysics, the student will choose a track of
> education in harmony with their taste and inclination, but to successfully
> graduate from DQ University, every student must have absorbed and
> demonstrated the knowledge of  mastery of all levels of their being - in a
> natural progression from the biological arts of agriculture and shelter
> creation to the high intellectual pursuits of art and politics.
>
>
> In fact, the school grounds should be themselves an ideal demonstration of
> proper principles put in practice.  Designed in a circle with enough food
> for all and gardened according to the wisest minds in a holistic pattern.
>
>
> And archery.  Every student should learn how to hit the target with a bow.
>  For your doctorate, you have to get it in the bulls eye.
>
>
> There.  I have a plan.
>
>
> On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 7:51 AM, Ian Glendinning
> <ian.glendinning at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> I'm intrigued John/ Mark ... which "university thread" did I miss ?
>> Regards
>> Ian
>> (PS my favourite song is "TIRO" - but not that one, another completely
>> different one by Muse)
>>
>> On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 3:49 PM, John Carl <ridgecoyote at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Good Timing squonk,
>> >
>> > As it so happens, there is this guy I'm hoping to see today who might be
>> > helpful.  He's a friend of my mom's and unexpectedly showed up from
>> Alaska
>> > this week... he is a leader of his people and has many contacts from his
>> > years as a represenative of native americans to the UN.  Last year he
>> spent
>> > a lot of time in Moscow and Siberia at some sort of world leadership
>> forum
>> > and he wants to get together and discuss his passion - self-sufficient
>> > community.  So with congruent interests and all I figure if there's
>> anybody
>> > in the world who can offer advice on off-the-wall ideas about Indian
>> > Community, this is the guy.
>> >
>> > I'll let you know how it goes.
>> >
>> >
>> > On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 7:31 AM, <mark_maxwell at talktalk.net> wrote:
>> >
>> >>
>> >> Please re-introduce your University thread John?
>> >> If only more contributors would help.
>> >
>> >>
>>
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