BOB'S MOOT | 2006-04-23
Do you think it would be a good idea if we changed the title from Bob's Blog to Bob's Moot?
This would emphasize the fact that this is a seminar, not a lecture.
Bob LEADS this Moot, but it is no fun and little intellectual profit to ME if I am the only one doing the talking.
In the usual course, the professor feeds the students and then tests them and gives the final judgement whether they have absorbed HIS points. I hope Bob's Blog has moved beyond that.
Yes, I want you to stay on subject. But I do NOT want this to be just absorb and regurgitate. I want to PLANT a way of thinking in you. When I die, I want you to go ahead and improve on a base I set.
When I am just plain wrong, I want YOU to tell me so.
When I'm no longer here, I want you to tell each other how to proceed.
I want ideas popping up that needed my basic way of thinking to get started, but which I would be amazed at.
It scares me when, as in the congressional debate on renewing the ban on the IRS setting racial quotas for private schools, the people on my side forgot all the basics as soon as I was not there.
Why can't somebody else tell a TV interviewer who saysd it is critical that immigrants and Americans getting together in this country,
"They've GOT a country."
Nobody else seems to remember that.
Basics, basics, BASICS!
And from basics, you PROCEED.
I get a bit desperate, gang.
SOMEBODY besides me has to STICK to the basics.
And "basics" mean something you PROCEED from.
I can't do all the proceeding.
I CAN'T DO ALL THE PROCEEDING.
So every time a commenter goes back into the standard stuff, I feel terribly let down.
Don't talk about stuff here that you can talk about just anywhere. Let's concentrate on OUR basics.
Are there any comments, questions, disagreements?