WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:00.720 align:middle line:90% 00:00:00.720 --> 00:00:02.910 align:middle line:84% I'm forgetting the number of that one 00:00:02.910 --> 00:00:05.820 align:middle line:84% that I quote in the book, and I do 00:00:05.820 --> 00:00:08.580 align:middle line:84% tend to like the ones that are very daffy 00:00:08.580 --> 00:00:14.100 align:middle line:84% and have a lot of fantasies of persecution in them. 00:00:14.100 --> 00:00:16.982 align:middle line:84% But as with time, I have a problem with numbers. 00:00:16.982 --> 00:00:19.440 align:middle line:84% Let me say something that's sort of in the back of my mind, 00:00:19.440 --> 00:00:21.390 align:middle line:90% I'll make it explicit. 00:00:21.390 --> 00:00:23.280 align:middle line:90% I'm talking about culture. 00:00:23.280 --> 00:00:26.370 align:middle line:84% The culture of the University is something we need to attend to, 00:00:26.370 --> 00:00:29.340 align:middle line:84% and probably more of us here can do something about that. 00:00:29.340 --> 00:00:31.350 align:middle line:90% This is not my personal vanity. 00:00:31.350 --> 00:00:33.270 align:middle line:84% I'm not talking about me, though, 00:00:33.270 --> 00:00:36.630 align:middle line:84% I'm afraid that you will think I am. 00:00:36.630 --> 00:00:40.160 align:middle line:84% It's too bad that there's no undergraduates here. 00:00:40.160 --> 00:00:42.010 align:middle line:90% So much that happens-- 00:00:42.010 --> 00:00:44.480 align:middle line:90% OK, three. 00:00:44.480 --> 00:00:46.280 align:middle line:84% OK, raise your hand-- four, five, six. 00:00:46.280 --> 00:00:50.070 align:middle line:90% 00:00:50.070 --> 00:00:52.660 align:middle line:84% There are six undergraduates here. 00:00:52.660 --> 00:00:56.320 align:middle line:90% Seven, eight, whatever. 00:00:56.320 --> 00:00:59.020 align:middle line:84% I think in the culture of the campus-- 00:00:59.020 --> 00:01:02.440 align:middle line:84% we are somewhat infiltrated by the culture 00:01:02.440 --> 00:01:05.920 align:middle line:84% at large, when we should be a little bit more different. 00:01:05.920 --> 00:01:08.230 align:middle line:90% We should be something else. 00:01:08.230 --> 00:01:12.490 align:middle line:84% And the kids need, and I know there 00:01:12.490 --> 00:01:14.720 align:middle line:84% are men and women-- they're not just children, 00:01:14.720 --> 00:01:16.910 align:middle line:84% but to some extent, undergraduates are children. 00:01:16.910 --> 00:01:20.310 align:middle line:84% It's an infantilizing experience to be an undergraduate. 00:01:20.310 --> 00:01:23.310 align:middle line:84% You're subject to rewards and punishments in the forms 00:01:23.310 --> 00:01:24.990 align:middle line:90% of grades and so forth. 00:01:24.990 --> 00:01:28.020 align:middle line:84% And in many ways, especially the 17 00:01:28.020 --> 00:01:30.360 align:middle line:84% and 18-year-old undergraduates are kids. 00:01:30.360 --> 00:01:31.800 align:middle line:90% They are children. 00:01:31.800 --> 00:01:36.510 align:middle line:84% And it's the responsibility of the grown ups in the community 00:01:36.510 --> 00:01:38.650 align:middle line:84% to tell the children, this belongs to you. 00:01:38.650 --> 00:01:40.490 align:middle line:90% This is for you too. 00:01:40.490 --> 00:01:44.360 align:middle line:84% And I think the children tend to think classes are for them. 00:01:44.360 --> 00:01:48.390 align:middle line:90% 00:01:48.390 --> 00:01:53.940 align:middle line:84% Their won-- sports programs-- for some of them are for them. 00:01:53.940 --> 00:01:57.660 align:middle line:84% Their own favorite cultural things of their generation, 00:01:57.660 --> 00:02:02.230 align:middle line:84% whatever the music or the video or the TV is, is for them. 00:02:02.230 --> 00:02:06.910 align:middle line:84% And if there's a concert on the campus, 00:02:06.910 --> 00:02:09.820 align:middle line:90% it's not for them, or dance. 00:02:09.820 --> 00:02:11.170 align:middle line:90% The classes are their job. 00:02:11.170 --> 00:02:13.420 align:middle line:84% This is not their job or their business. 00:02:13.420 --> 00:02:17.850 align:middle line:84% And somebody told me today that teacher, Janice Dewey. 00:02:17.850 --> 00:02:21.000 align:middle line:84% Janice Dewey tells her students, you 00:02:21.000 --> 00:02:23.550 align:middle line:90% must go to the Poetry Center. 00:02:23.550 --> 00:02:25.270 align:middle line:90% I am telling you-- 00:02:25.270 --> 00:02:26.882 align:middle line:84% my authority-- I don't know how she-- 00:02:26.882 --> 00:02:27.840 align:middle line:90% I don't know what she-- 00:02:27.840 --> 00:02:29.700 align:middle line:84% there's award-- she just tells them, I am-- 00:02:29.700 --> 00:02:32.025 align:middle line:84% I'm in charge here, and I am telling you-- 00:02:32.025 --> 00:02:35.493 align:middle line:90% 00:02:35.493 --> 00:02:37.160 align:middle line:84% she doesn't need to say she's in charge. 00:02:37.160 --> 00:02:39.950 align:middle line:84% I presume she's a good teacher, her authority is evident. 00:02:39.950 --> 00:02:42.350 align:middle line:84% She says, I want you to go to the Poetry Center 00:02:42.350 --> 00:02:44.750 align:middle line:84% and look around, or go to the Poetry 00:02:44.750 --> 00:02:47.180 align:middle line:84% Center-- have a specific assignment, come back 00:02:47.180 --> 00:02:50.570 align:middle line:84% with a one page or two page that you've written about something 00:02:50.570 --> 00:02:52.190 align:middle line:84% you saw there-- a magazine, or a book, 00:02:52.190 --> 00:02:56.870 align:middle line:84% or a photograph, or something that you saw there. 00:02:56.870 --> 00:03:00.920 align:middle line:84% It's not just the University's job to teach the classes 00:03:00.920 --> 00:03:03.680 align:middle line:90% and to bring in the things. 00:03:03.680 --> 00:03:06.560 align:middle line:84% It's also the job to tell the kids, 00:03:06.560 --> 00:03:09.540 align:middle line:84% this is your chance to do this stuff. 00:03:09.540 --> 00:03:11.960 align:middle line:84% This is part of what goes on here, 00:03:11.960 --> 00:03:13.643 align:middle line:84% and that is a cultural matter too. 00:03:13.643 --> 00:03:16.310 align:middle line:84% That is a cultural matter, and I apologize to the seven or eight 00:03:16.310 --> 00:03:17.930 align:middle line:84% undergraduates here, but you just 00:03:17.930 --> 00:03:21.500 align:middle line:84% seem so wise and mature that I didn't identify you. 00:03:21.500 --> 00:03:22.000 align:middle line:90%