tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9479398.post2090069582901176304..comments2024-03-28T11:33:16.271-05:00Comments on Adventus: Walks like a duck, quacks like a duckUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9479398.post-49787959032845561462017-04-27T07:54:03.445-05:002017-04-27T07:54:03.445-05:00My college German professor loved to remind us tha...My college German professor loved to remind us that little children learned the language easily, so why not us?<br /><br />My other German professor, actually from Germany, took time to encourage us to read the literature of the Greeks and Romans, which he insisted filled only a small bookshelf (it does) but would improve our educations immeasurably.<br /><br />He was right, of course, but also taking a swipe at American education.Rmjhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06811456254443706479noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9479398.post-67535334614443173952017-04-27T07:46:36.342-05:002017-04-27T07:46:36.342-05:00I can only imagine what Merkel thought of that. Es...I can only imagine what Merkel thought of that. Especially in the context of Barack Obama sandwiched between George W. Bush and Trump. <br /><br />It reminds me of a story someone told me from their beginning German class in college, taught by a German intellectual. One of the early classes they had a vocabulary test, she said they should write the word and give a definition of it. One of the students raised his hand and said, "I thought we just had to know how to spell them, not know what they mean." Reportedly she just shook her head and said, "I don't know how they let some of you into university."The Thought Criminalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01381376556757084468noreply@blogger.com