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You Can’t Always Get What You Want, or In Defense of False Choices

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Michael Quirk May 5, 2017

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"On my way to teach each morning at @TheNewSchool, I always say a prayer to my two spirit animals: a gargoyle and a steam pipe." New School poet + teacher A. W. Strouse considers an education spent in Brutalist towers, glass classrooms, and Gothic castles: https://t.co/zeD8a6JPL8

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"We exist here for and because of the students, and in the classroom is where we can exercise the most agency. If our students are unsafe and unheard, what kind of education can they receive? We cannot take this lightly." https://t.co/DNXLblHiQj

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The tale of two cultures at the @MannesCollege and @TheNewSchool: https://t.co/oXVIzkt37b

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"On my way to teach each morning at The New School, I always say a prayer to my two spirit animals: a gargoyle and a steam pipe." New School poet and teacher A. W. Strouse considers an education spent in Brutalist towers, glass classrooms, and Gothic castles: …

New York City Buildings Were My Education

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On my way to teach each morning at The New School, I always say a prayer to my two spirit animals: a gargoyle and a steam pipe. Fraternal twins, they adorn a building on the corner of 14th Street and University Place, guarding Union Square. The gargoyle — like a brooch reaching across a thick neck

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UNC-Chapel Hill Proposes to Raise Millions to Preserve Silent Sam

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On the night of December 8, after proctoring the final exam for the undergraduate course I teach, I got the phone call that I simultaneously needed and dreaded. “What are your thoughts on participation?” my co-instructor asked. “I have so many overlapping concerns that I don’t know where to …

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The tale of two cultures at the Mannes School of Music and The New School: …

Uncovering the Musical Divide

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When Julia Foulkes, a historian at The New School, asked me to write about the historical cultures that defined the Mannes School of Music and those of the New School, I couldn’t help but think about my own musical pedigree: once a performer, now music scholar. This disciplinary divide is rarely u…

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