Red Rock Eater Digest - Supporting the Intellectual Life of a Democratic Society

[I don't know what to make of this paper. It's the strangest thing

I've ever written. It grows out of many years of careful observation

of the process by which I do whatever it is I do for a living. But

its significance is not just personal. I believe that everyone has

an intellectual calling, and for years I've evolved methods to force

students out of an attitude of passive conformity, doing whatever the

professor wants, and instead to discover what it is they really care

about, so that they can articulate in intellectual terms a calling

that they really feel, really believe in, and really get up in the

morning to act on.