#41 ::: Jordin ::: (view all by) ::: January 22, 2012, 06:14 PM:Įlliott Mason #13: You don't mention whether you're on a PC or Mac. Despite what a lot of people might think, these kids don't the history of the music they want to make either, past what they came to consciousness knowing. * As this is the music department and most of the music majors are either planning to be djs, hiphop producers or have gospel and church music as their career path, he gets frustrated at this non-historical consciousness in music as well. His freshman are so young and thus non-historical* that a lot of them take for granted that the office of the POTUS being held by a black person is a matter of course. ![]() So he asked the class, "You know who Romney is?"Ī lot of blank stares, then one student says, "Isn't he one of those white dudes who wants to president or something?" He recalled that one cannot take for granted anything that one of his age knows as a matter of course. Somehow or other he used Romney as an example of something in one of his classes. ![]() In the after-concert socializing last night a friend whose classes have resumed shared this bit with me re his freshman students.
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