I have seen ZAAMM referred to in the following places.
A conference on physics-teaching saw a Univ of Del prof
saying that his goal was to move towards a high quality
teacher-classroom relationship. He quoted ZAAMM.
A Chemistry professor I know was writing about the
status of the science teaching versus demands of the
University Dean. He gave a quotation about quality
from the same book.
Its always encouraging to see this kind of thing.
Perhaps we can sum up the whole thread with the
idea that special books like ZAMM and Lila will find good people,
and many of those good people will have sufficient authority to
teach from them, or use them to communicate ideas.
There are many I think, who favor the world view of
ZAMM and Lila, even if they may not have risen to
their positions by confessing that interest. But to gradually
"sneak" the ideas in, seems like something they are doing...
Doug
----- Original Message -----
From: "Stephen Devlin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, May 16, 2001 10:54 AM
Subject: RE: MD An Introduction to the Metaphysics of Quality
> Hi Clarke
> I haven't got a copy of ZAMM on me but there is a section where the
> narrator is at DeWeese's party and analysing the instructions for a
> rotisserie where he recalls a Japanese motorcycle repair manual which
stated
> that "...motorcycle repair require's great peace of mind".This statement,
> along with a practical explanation of inductive, deductive reasoning and
> scientific method have helped me and my colleague's save my company an
awful
> lot of time and money.
> The views on different types of mechanics and their approaches to the
> work are of equal importance. Further, we find views where whilst teaching
a
> Rhetoric course the definition of quality comes up and leads Phaedrus to
> start tying these threads into a coherent web, simultaneously proving to
his
> students that they allready know what quality is in prose,then
illustrating
> this in a comparative fashion.
> For an academic institution to take a book seriously it doesn't have
to
> have been around forever and meet with peer review, it can be enough to
let
> the reader take time to examine his/her motivations/approaches/goals for
> study etc and make sure they tie in with quality.
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> Sent: 16 May 2001 14:27
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> Subject: Re: MD An Introduction to the Metaphysics of Quality
>
>
> ZAMM was a required text for one of my Poli Sci classes at the University
of
>
> New Orleans in 1976. I didn't consider at the time to find out how it
> became
> so. It may have been a particular quirk of the Professor.
>
> Clarke
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