Word: teachers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...stick your neck out and sometimes you do and you flop miserably. Sometimes the artists in this show flop miserably--but usually because they've fallen prey to the modern student syndrome of not experimenting, or staying in a rut. Those who move beyond the strict confines of a teacher's assignment, if nothing else, escape the mortal sin of being boring. When you're exhibiting in a building that has been likened to two grand pianos fucking, that's something to avoid at all costs...
...Notes is full of encounters with odd characters that evoke a bittersweet mixture of sympathy and contempt. The strangest of the lot is Mr. Blue, an aging door-to-door salesman still capable of doing 50 push-ups on request, who lives with a six-foot woman gymnastics teacher. But Exley also makes more "ordinary" encounters memorable. And the web of brawls begun over football arguments, debauched weekends, overnight stays on couches and endless journeys are held together by forceful personal insights, culminating in the realization of his destiny as a fan. Even when Exley offers nothing new--he learns...
...tragedy is that Exley, a good writer and teacher, published Pages knowing it wasn't any good. Where Notes is a well-integrated, sensitive book, Pages is a tedious pastiche abounding with descriptions of Exley and his favorite bartender reading the morning mail--and Exley knows better...
...student relations before 1969 "later came to seem paternalistic." They were paternalistic. Paternalism seems to be what Harvey Mansfield longs for: he complains that faculty members don't get the respect due to age, learning, and position. In my experience they get this respect--probably Mansfield misses the traditional teacher-student relationship, with its deep respect, admiration, and obligation...
...this old teacher-student relationship absent? To quote Handlin again, "Now we work according to customer and client obligation. You do what is required and you don't do anything more." This is the reason. So many professors do the bare minimum required--the contempt they have for students, and for education itself, makes me furious...