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Herb Childress

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Reserve Judgment

What did you say to me?
(Image by Mile Modic, via Unsplash)

Walter:
Were you listening to The Dude’s story, Donny?

The Dude:
Walter…

Donny:
What?

Walter:
Were you listening to The Dude’s story?

Donny:
I was bowling.

Walter:
So you have no frame of reference here, Donny. You’re like a child who wanders into the middle of a movie and wants to know…

The Dude:
(interrupting) Walter, Walter, what’s the point, man?

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“A combination of consumer thinking, market fluidity, loss of professional status, technological innovation, and demographic shifts has led us to a point where the faculty will never again be a primarily full-time, primarily tenure-track institutional or cultural commitment.”
Herb Childress, The Adjunct Underclass: How America’s Colleges Betrayed Their Faculty, Their Students, and Their Mission

“Reader's Bill of Rights

1. The right to not read

2. The right to skip pages

3. The right to not finish

4. The right to reread

5. The right to read anything

6. The right to escapism

7. The right to read anywhere

8. The right to browse

9. The right to read out loud

10. The right to not defend your tastes”
Daniel Pennac




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