Here's my take: What's lost is not just various skills, but also a pre-theoretical consensus/understanding of what education means--what it's for, what roles/expectations students should take on, etc. Some students simply do not know what it means to be a student. The role seems foreign to them.
I blame my lack of productivity and the fact that the work I've produced has been mostly ok
Me too!
That isn't very reassuring
I hear similar issue from Music Theorists (I teach humanities classes at a music school): Students come to music school with much less facility in music theory than they did a decade+ ago. They are technically proficient on their instruments, but many struggle reading/understanding a score
My dogs are also sighthounds (Galgos). They are notorious for ignoring commands when they're in hunting mode. Perhaps using German is the trick! (Their galgueros, of course, spoke to them in Spanish)
My dogs caught a squirrel, but because they were fighting over it, they weren't able to kill it. I was heading back inside and the one that had it in its mouth started following me. I held out my foot to keep him back, and the squirrel nailed me on the ankle. Not a bad bite, but not fun either.
Fun fact I learned today: squirrels and most other rodents almost never carry rabies and there has never been a documented transmission from them to another animal. Any guesses on why I needed to learn that information?
Definitely. I often feel more like an existential counselor than a political theory professor
Absolutely heartbroken to learn of Dikembe Mutombo's untimely passing. A story: one day in 2010, I got the most random phone call to my office at Morehouse. It was Dikembe's personal assistant, asking if I'd be willing to meet at his office to talk about the D.R. Congo. Obviously I said yes. (1/n)
Hall of Famer Dikembe Mutombo, the "larger than life" center who played 18 NBA seasons, has died of brain cancer at the age of 58, the league announced Monday.