Took my Intro classes to the library today, was shocked at how many students have never searched for a book by call #... and one even asked if they were allowed to check books out and take them home!
So it made me happy to make them all watch this, which transported me back to our daughters' childhoods (and my second one):
Showed them this too, since we've come to Descartes on the syllabus and I want them to pronounce the name correctly (and Nietzsche)...
We also learned good things from the librarian who specializes in Philosophy and Religion, Rachel Kirk. If you have any questions about the library, just ask her: rakirk@mtsu.edu.
Immanuel Kant was a real pissant
ReplyDeleteWho was very rarely stable
Heidegger, Heidegger was a boozy beggar
Who could think you under the table
David Hume could out-consume
Schopenhauer and Hegel
And Wittgenstein was a beery swine
Who was just as sloshed as Schlegel
There's nothing Nietzsche couldn't teach ya
'Bout the raising of the wrist
Socrates, himself, was permanently pissed
John Stuart Mill, of his own free will
On half a pint of shandy was particularly ill
Plato, they say,, could stick it away
Half a crate of whiskey every day
Aristotle, Aristotle was a bugger for the bottle
Hobbes was fond of his dram
And Rene Descartes was a drunken fart
"I drink, therefore I am"
Yes, Socrates, himself, is particularly missed
A lovely little thinker but a bugger when he's pissed
Good! Now, somebody give us the words to Arthur's song...
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