This is great; Kathleen quotes a talk Anne Balsamo gave at the MLA yesterday where she argued that “academics must cease their quest to educate students-as-replicants and instead start thinking about educating students-as-mutants”.

Yeah! Go mutant students!

It’s a damn good point, actually.


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2 thoughts on “students-as-mutants

  1. Magnus Enger

    Reminds me of a Daniel Dennett-quote: “A scholar is a library’s way of making another library”… 😉

  2. Jill

    Oh god. That’s kind of a sad profession I’m stuck in eh?

    So what are blogs, then?

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