The Good Professor - Akira the Don, Alan Watts

So, let’s look at this thing from another point of view, which you will at

first think highly depressing

Let’s supposing we can’t do anything to change ourselves

Suppose we’re stuck with it.

Now, that is the worst thing an American audience

can hear

There’s no way of improving yourself, because every kind of culture in this

country is dedicated to self-improvement

Just take jogging, that deplorable practice

It’s a very nice thing to run

And to go dancing across the hills at a fast speed

But these joggers (imitating shoes hitting pavment)

Shaking their bones, rattling thir brains, running on their heels

There’s a grimness about it.

It’s determinately good for you

Why do you go to school?

The whole point of coming to school is that you’re interested in something

You don’t come to improve yourself

The trouble is that the schools got the wrong idea

They gave people honors for learning

The reward for studying French should be the ability to speak French and enjoy

reading French

And having fun with French people

But when you get a degree for it, then the degree becomes the point

In a game of one-upmanship

And of course, one-upmanship is the main business of the educational community

today

You learn all the rules of how to be a good professor

How to be a good professor