moe22
09-07-2001, 02:37 AM
I'm sure you theater people will appreciate this. :biggrin: So, this is for my Renaissance and Drama Lit class. It's with my wicked cool professor, who just keeps getting more awesome by the minute! :cool:
This week he's been going over the origins of the Renaissance and what led up to it, as a background for the plays we'll be studying. He is the type of professor that feels so passionately about what he teaches that you actually want to go to his class and LISTEN to what he has to say. :biggrin: :biggrin:
Anyways, today he was lecturing on the Pagan origins of magic and drama, the Hermetic Tradition, Dionysis, and the gnostic stuff. This, he said, was all leading up to the Renaissance theater. Towards the end of the lecture he got all into it and started talking about computers. He stopped and asked us if we had ever read Walt Whitman and some of us raised our hands. The rest of his lecture went something like this:
Professor speaking:
"Walt Whitman wrote once about a little boy who picked up a leaf and asked him "What is this?" to which Walt replied confidentley "I don't know!" So, for those of you who say you are bored with life, you have nothing to do, nothing to wonder about...to hell with you! Look around you. Everyday something new is being created, everyday there is something new to learn and behold. LOOK AROUND. For all that computers are supposed to be these great machines...we can line up all of them side by side and they still won't be able to tell us what a leaf is. WHY IT IS. The theater is the most wonderful place...it gives people freedom..it tells us why things are..it all goes back to the theatre where there is life and where everyone has a voice and wakes us up to our surroundings...
(when I put the words in uppercase, it's because he was yelling them.)
When he finished saying that (or close to what I wrote) we were all just kind of staring at him with our mouths open. Such an awesome teacher!! Just thought I'd share that, cause for some reason, I found it to be deeply moving. :biggrin: :biggrin: :fro:
This week he's been going over the origins of the Renaissance and what led up to it, as a background for the plays we'll be studying. He is the type of professor that feels so passionately about what he teaches that you actually want to go to his class and LISTEN to what he has to say. :biggrin: :biggrin:
Anyways, today he was lecturing on the Pagan origins of magic and drama, the Hermetic Tradition, Dionysis, and the gnostic stuff. This, he said, was all leading up to the Renaissance theater. Towards the end of the lecture he got all into it and started talking about computers. He stopped and asked us if we had ever read Walt Whitman and some of us raised our hands. The rest of his lecture went something like this:
Professor speaking:
"Walt Whitman wrote once about a little boy who picked up a leaf and asked him "What is this?" to which Walt replied confidentley "I don't know!" So, for those of you who say you are bored with life, you have nothing to do, nothing to wonder about...to hell with you! Look around you. Everyday something new is being created, everyday there is something new to learn and behold. LOOK AROUND. For all that computers are supposed to be these great machines...we can line up all of them side by side and they still won't be able to tell us what a leaf is. WHY IT IS. The theater is the most wonderful place...it gives people freedom..it tells us why things are..it all goes back to the theatre where there is life and where everyone has a voice and wakes us up to our surroundings...
(when I put the words in uppercase, it's because he was yelling them.)
When he finished saying that (or close to what I wrote) we were all just kind of staring at him with our mouths open. Such an awesome teacher!! Just thought I'd share that, cause for some reason, I found it to be deeply moving. :biggrin: :biggrin: :fro: