Laziness and cowardice are the reasons why such a large proportion of men, even when nature has long emancipated them from alien guidance, nevertheless gladly remain immature for life. For the same reasons, it is all too easy for others to set themselves up as their guardians. It is so convenient to be immature! If I have a book to have understanding in place of me, a spiritual adviser to have a conscience for me, a doctor to judge my diet for me, and so on, I need not make any efforts at all. I need not think, so long as I can pay; others will soon enough take the tiresome job over for me.

RT @pfanderson: A 13-Year-Old's Slavery Analogy Raises Some Uncomfortable Truths in School #education #slavery

RT @michacardenas: Reclaim UC: Delegitimate UC #strike #occupation #education

Great piece on #occupy and free speech by @pjrey. Was (ironically?) pulled from Sociology Lens as unsociological.

RT @cliotropic: UCR's Dylan Rodriguez on "(historically white) university campuses as places of presumed innocence":

RT @tmcphers: RT @mkgold: RT @cnewf: Rebuilding Public Universities - my guest edited issue of Academe is on-line

Great post from @catinstack about labor & digital economy; in some ways, the flip side of what I posted about yesterday

Just made my first blog post at @HASTAC, talking about digital knowledge production and fandom.

MLA president on "The New Dissertation." If my diss were in this form I'd have already written it...

Humanities graduate study as a love story: -- rings very true for me.

The humanities as profitable business enterprise: . I can't decide if this is heartening or depressing.

On the internet's future: "Virtual universities are good but virtual nations are not": not sure I agree. From @hastac

Fred Moten and Stefano Harney praise mutual debt and endless study:

What possessed me to read the comments on this article? Now my wee Scottish socialist self is very, very annoyed.

And to follow the last RT, a photo from Thursday's downtown LA rally: education WAS our country's future!

RT @hastac: Without Public Education, Democracy Fails-- Prof Wendy Brown's address on capitol steps: Pass it on! via