a real girl,
maybe this is making the death real for him?
a real girl,
maybe this is making the death real for him?
All Bill Peek knew is that many bodies were lying on the ground and a space was being made for him to approach.
Bill has no ability to conceptualize the death around him. This society seems to lack humanity.
Program
captial P - what is the Program?
Melly’s gone and left me and one of them thing’s been following me, since the pier—even before that.”
reminds me of a dystopian fantasy novel
Melinda Durham said
Is this the old woman?
They were too local even to understand the implied threat.
Global vs. local?
He was simply global, accompanying his father on his inspections, though usually to livelier spots than this.
What does his father do?
I mean, I think the general public know quite a lot about quite a lot, too. And that knowledge is worth something
When we assume that knowledge presented to us by the academic institution is the only knowledge that is valuable, we perpetrate this idea to our students. How harmful could this be? I think it's important to allow students access to knowledge that comes from sources other than traditional academia.
which should be as highly valued as that of the ‘elite’.
I think this idea of controlling the knowledge our students have access to is an interesting one. To what extent is this control helpful? To what extent does it hinder their knowledge of their world rather than fostering acceptable research methods?