Publish and Perish?

By SHARON STEEL  |  February 28, 2008

“Education happens wherever people are busy trying out ideas,” “Fauxneme” says via e-mail. “Posting these blogs is a way to give these lectures to thousands of people who don’t have the privilege to be there in the first place.”

Magliozzi ultimately hopes to have every single class blogged — and not just at Harvard. “Then you could do really interesting things, so it’s not only about what Stephen Greenblatt is saying about Shakespeare, it’s about what Harold Bloom is saying at Yale, or what a professor at Stanford is saying,” he says. “Then you could have an intercollegiate discussion. There was a time when Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle were public intellectuals. Maybe we should do that again.”

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