-Prof. Tim
May I testify brothers and sisters? Can I be a witness?
I've been reading/posting to the group for about a year now ... as a
result of talking about the meme paradigm I was roped into doing a
presentation at my boss's kid's Junior High for career day. Remarkably, I
had a great time. Since then I've gotten involved with the Employee
Satisfaction group here at work, I've begun teaching chess at my kid's Grade
School, and in two weeks I'll be doing an 8 week Junior Achievement program
on Personal Finance in an inner city school.
The concept of meme has helped me fill the moat of cynicism that
what preventing me from moving from thought to action .... to almost mix a
metaphor. Thinking of memes has not made me any more tolerant of
unproductive/counterproductive behaviors, but its made me a whole lot more
sneaky about presenting my arguments. I'm more willing to walk a mile in
other's moccasins so that I can divert their path on the next mile <phew, a
full blown mixed metaphor>.
My point being that my guess is that the student/teacher ratio in
real life is probably less than one <more people want to be teachers then
students>.... for me memetics is a tool for improving the student/Nate
<teacher> ratio.... ironically its also lowered the Nate <student>/teacher
ratio <I'm learning more from the people around me>. I guess in an ideal
world the two ratios would be exact inverses ...