THE GREAT THING ABOUT TEACHING IS THAT THERE IS ALWAYS MORE TO LEARN
"So when are you going to stop?" Next year will be my 30th at this particular Ivy League institution. It sounds like a nice round number, and with a new life in Italy, a first grandchild in Slovenia, and a 67th birthday looming, the question of retirement sounds logical. But it's more complicated than that. Just recently a favorite student from a writing course I taught for the first time this year sent me a wonderful article by Jonathan Safran Foer on technology and loneliness. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/09/opinion/sunday/how-not-to-be-alone.html?pagewanted=2&_r=0&smid=fb-nytimes&pagewanted=all After a quick first reading, I wrote back to her: Hi, Thank you for sending me this eloquent and thought-provoking article. Except for the length, wouldn't it make an exemplary piece for our Daily Themes course? When I first saw the title, as one of those self-identified anti-technology fools the author denounces...