yesterday, e. and a. sitting at the kitchen table recovering from a late new year's eve party. i was trying to brilliantly argue that the original aim of education, of schooling, was according to the greeks to form knowledgeable citizens and that we've somehow turned that into training and molding technicials. one could also argue disinformed and uncritical technicians.

e., the 19 year old cegep kid, better known to be able to quote just any part of the 17 seasons of the simpsons, said : "and, in that case, a technical problem eventually becomes a technical problem." i mean, really, how does this girl manage to floor me everytime ?