Gladly Lerne, Gladly Teche

"Gladly Lerne, Gladly Teche" is the personal web log of John V. Fleming, the Louis W. Fairchild Professor of English and Comparative Literature emeritus at Princeton University. It continues in its title and its spirit his one-time newspaper column in The Daily Princetonian. As a general rule a new post is mounted every Wednesday morning (EST).

Tuesday, December 13, 2011

Up the Educational Creek, Without Paddle

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Get ready for a long, grumpy,  boring political screed, because there’s this lady Julianna Smoot, keeps writing to me about my dinn...
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Tuesday, December 6, 2011

Happy Birthday, Uncle Rick

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              Richard N. Fleming (æt. 70) with bloguiste brother in Las Cruces, N.M.; photo by Richard A. Fleming We have just r...
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Wednesday, November 30, 2011

Inclusive Language

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  Émile Littré:  ¡No pasarán! Every writer has their cross to bear.  I say that because after offering token res...
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Wednesday, November 23, 2011

Esse est percipi

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            Most of my readers are probably familiar, vaguely, with the name of George Berkeley.  Berkeley (1685-1753) was a philos...
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Wednesday, November 16, 2011

Reading the Leaves

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It seems to be generally true that people in the autumn of life respond with sharpening attention to the annual coming of the autum...
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Wednesday, November 9, 2011

Shifting Signifiers, or Signs of the Times

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Omnis doctrina vel res vel signa est, sed res per signa discuntur.                         Augustine   De Doctrina Christiniana At the b...
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Tuesday, November 1, 2011

An Upside to the Medicare Crisis

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I believe that most of my students are younger than I am.  Ordinarily that observation would be of a banality so oppressive as to for...
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John V. Fleming, the Louis W. Fairchild Professor of Literature emeritus at Princeton University, retired after a long teaching career in 2006. He and his wife Joan continue to live in Princeton. The Flemings have three adult children, six delightful grandchildren, and lives that mysteriously continue to be busy.He can be reached at jfleming@princeton.edu.
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