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Monday, February 09, 2009
You Know Someone’s a Good Teacher When…
...they can convince you that you might want to read a 19th-century book about worm excrement. I’m just saying. (1:17 and following)
(More generally, I can’t recommend highly enough the entire series of lectures to which this one by George Levine belongs. They are from a course offered at Stanford last fall called “Darwin’s Legacy” and all are available on YouTube and through iTunes U. And, if you’re in a Darwinian kind of mood, I also recently enjoyed this interview with Ian McEwan--"I would want to claim for atheists a much greater and livelier sense of interest and connection with the world, a sense of its wonders, but its wonders that are amenable to our curiosity and can be unwrapped by them with delight...").