Comments on: “Will I See You in September or Lose You to the University of Phoenix?” http://nasblog.org/2010/02/04/%e2%80%9cwill-i-see-you-in-september-or-lose-you-to-the-university-of-phoenix%e2%80%9d/ The National Association of Scholars: For reasoned scholarship in a free society Thu, 29 Jul 2010 16:15:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: T. W. Stone http://nasblog.org/2010/02/04/%e2%80%9cwill-i-see-you-in-september-or-lose-you-to-the-university-of-phoenix%e2%80%9d/#comment-505 T. W. Stone Thu, 11 Feb 2010 12:37:45 +0000 http://nasblog.org/?p=1236#comment-505 Ah ha ha Clemens most disingenuous of you–– and I suppose when you are hunkering down with your chummy little kids in classes you are "into" this and that, and making "like" "humungous" breakthroughs just to get on well! Doesn't pay to be too curmudgeonly correct, or elegant, does it, in winning over the unwashed? Do you also make air clicking hooks as quotation marks around cute quotes of the day when you are in front giving a "quality" lecture? I bet you pride yourself on not being irrelevant at all ( as you contemptuously think of them in their impoverished little media-driven universes) when you are not even making an effort to keep a high standard, or expect them to read more than a thin slurry of classics interlarded with popular cowboy fiction! I stand by my earlier taunts. Ah ha ha Clemens most disingenuous of you–– and I suppose when you are hunkering down with your chummy little kids in classes you are “into” this and that, and making “like” “humungous” breakthroughs just to get on well! Doesn’t pay to be too curmudgeonly correct, or elegant, does it, in winning over the unwashed? Do you also make air clicking hooks as quotation marks around cute quotes of the day when you are in front giving a “quality” lecture?
I bet you pride yourself on not being irrelevant at all ( as you contemptuously think of them in their impoverished little media-driven universes) when you are not even making an effort to keep a high standard, or expect them to read more than a thin slurry of classics interlarded with popular cowboy fiction!
I stand by my earlier taunts.

]]> By: David Clemens http://nasblog.org/2010/02/04/%e2%80%9cwill-i-see-you-in-september-or-lose-you-to-the-university-of-phoenix%e2%80%9d/#comment-502 David Clemens Tue, 09 Feb 2010 23:33:40 +0000 http://nasblog.org/?p=1236#comment-502 "Exactly what kind of quality, high quality or poor quality are you disseminating?" My OED defines "quality" as "peculiar excellence or superiority." “Exactly what kind of quality, high quality or poor quality are you disseminating?” My OED defines “quality” as “peculiar excellence or superiority.”

]]> By: T. W. Stone http://nasblog.org/2010/02/04/%e2%80%9cwill-i-see-you-in-september-or-lose-you-to-the-university-of-phoenix%e2%80%9d/#comment-493 T. W. Stone Tue, 09 Feb 2010 11:45:35 +0000 http://nasblog.org/?p=1236#comment-493 Professor Clemens, Are you an English teacher and representative of the talent at junior college level, and have you given up? Otherwise why perpetuate such a sloppy usage of English as " to deliver quality transfer curriculum" as stated in your piece above? Exactly what kind of quality, high quality or poor quality are you disseminating? Your pitch sounds like a sleazy car ad! ( Visible at 2 a.m. to desperadoes who have run out of Patricia Cornwell novels to guzzle down.) Surely a scholarly blog could muster more engaging premises and language, or are we preaching to the mossback choir? My teachers in Harvard English would have run you over in the street, sir. Professor Clemens,

Are you an English teacher and representative of the talent at junior college level, and have you given up? Otherwise why perpetuate such a sloppy usage of English as ” to deliver quality transfer curriculum” as stated in your piece above? Exactly what kind of quality, high quality or poor quality are you disseminating? Your pitch sounds like a sleazy car ad! ( Visible at 2 a.m. to desperadoes who have run out of Patricia Cornwell novels to guzzle down.) Surely a scholarly blog could muster more engaging premises and language, or are we preaching to the mossback choir? My teachers in Harvard English would have run you over in the street, sir.

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