Tue, 18 Apr 2006
RIP Coretta Scott King
Coretta Scott
King has died, long after her husband,
Martin Luther
King Jr. was assasinated by
James Earl Ray.
I attended the same college she did, though I attended it 48 years later. She
wrote a
particularly glowing yet naive article of the college her first year.
If you are still here after reading that...
and you should definitely read
it...I must comment on the relevance of the essay to the education I got from
Antioch between 1996 and 2000. Private, progressive, co-educational and
co-operative. That pretty much sums it up. I wouldn't be where I am today if it
weren't for Antioch College. It taught me how to take a risk no matter the odds
and stick with it. It proved to me that "almost any young person in any
high school can work out a vocational training for himself during vacations
from school, if he sets himself to it."
But I would like to write about my years on co-op differently. The co-op program was not a
vacation. I still describe my undergraduate education to others as a year-round
curriculum. That "vocational training" was not done during vacations,
it was done during my studies at Antioch, which are four years of my life I
will never forget.
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Getting Real by 37 Signals
A book recommended to me by a friend. The advertising has the bravado of a
dot com wanker but hey, I use basecamp and everyone I tell about it loves it
too. Maybe there's something to
this book?
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