Category: Writing
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Autonomy of Means revisited: the Internet
Last May I wrote a piece for this blog entitled “Autonomy of Means and Education”. The choice of phrasing was drawn from Charles WIlliams, “Bors to Elayne, on the King’s Coins”. I’ve recently had reason to revisit the question again, from a different direction. I’ve just finished reading Nicholas Carr’s The Shallows: What the Internet…
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Not the Blog Entry I Had Planned
The phrase “Continuing in the Word” has taken on a new aspect in the last two weeks. As many of you already know, our writing instructor, Jill Byington, lost her battle with breast cancer on December 8, 2010. Her students and their parents had a chance to work with Jill and understand what her loss…