Snapshot of an education. Texts from some of my university courses. Image: Su Leslie, 2016
The Great Clean-Out continues. The latest project has been to sort the text books I packed away in the in-laws shed when the Big T and I went to England in 1991.
This pile brought back memories of warm spring days spent listening to music and “swotting” for an exam on Feminist Theory.
Annie Lennox and Aretha Franklin’s Sisters Are Doin’ It For Themselves may have lacked the intellectual rigor of the post-structuralist feminists in whose articles and papers I struggled to find enlightenment and pithy soundbites to impress the examiners, but it’s simple optimism brought joy to my heart. Still does.
Zimmerbitch 
Yay! What a blast from Annie and Aretha. What else need be said!
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Love Annie Lennox. Good luck with the clear out
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Great video, marvelous sound! 🙂
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Could you face those books now? I still have some books from uni and, although I have a sort of sentimental attachment to them I don’t think I could read them today. My powers of concentration are not what they were!
PS great song, of course.
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Definitely not. I could barely read the blurb without getting confused these days.
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Why did we keep them? Did they represent the thrill and importance of being amongst the few who went to university? Or the possibility of an exciting future? Most of my textbooks got the heave -ho last year……finally! By the way, did you see this piece on education by Michele A’Court. I loved it. http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/education/76521018/michele-acourt-why-free-education-should-be-free
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Thanks for the link. She says so succinctly what I feel and try to communicate to the boy-child and his friends. I think I kept my text books partly because I have trouble parting with any books and partly because I believed (hoped) that sometime, out in the real world, I’d get another chance to really use my brain again — and I’d need some theoretical underpinning for that. Hasn’t happened!
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Perhaps it hasn’t happened as you imagined it would, but I am fairly sure your brain is making wonderful contributions to the real world. 😉
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Thanks; I hope so.
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