bomphiologia
Exaggeration done in a self-aggrandizing manner, as a braggart.
Rather than torment the Teaching Carnival 3.0 participants with the mishmash that is my main blog, I decided to repurpose this little-used quote blog for the project. Ideally, this will become the main site where pedagogy, online discourse, etc. will be discussed.
“[H]istory is not made by great dreams, but by the petty wants of all respectable, moderately thievish and selfish people, that is, of everyone.” (Busman, R.U.R. [Rossum's Universal Robots])
“But put identification and division ambiguously together, so that you cannot know for certain just where one ends and the other begins, and you have the characteristic invitation to rhetoric. . . . The wavering line between the two cannot be ‘scientifically’ identified; rival rhetoricians can draw it at different places, and their persuasiveness varies [...]
A ‘postmodern’ boss insists that he is not a master but just a coordinator of our joint creative efforts, the first among equals; there should be no formalities among us, we should address him by his nickname, he shares a dirty joke with us etc., but in all this, he remains our master. With such [...]