I do, just as I have done above. But you aren't interested. As you said above, you have a different definition (of things). I don't respond to all of your stuff Linda, the opinions are quite numerous and I have other things to do.

Where I went to college, our first day, reception, began with in the auditorium with a speech that went something like... 'congratulations, you made it... you are the cream of the crop... you have scored higher and have shown more potential than 98% of all high school seniors entering college this year... but don't get too full of yourself because that doesn't mean we're going to keep you..'



I would be interested as to where you get your 'most people' data.

Our first year of college was pretty tough. Mostly they wanted us to think. We spent a great deal of time studying history, humanities and ethics, Kant, Machiavelli, Proust etc things of that nature. That was the ethics portion of our first year, we were not allowed to voice opinions, we were allowed to ask questions of course. We were there to learn, not to voice opinions. The second portion of our first year was pretty much 'critique' in which we were given assigments, allowed to voice opinions in regard to our projects and other students work also. It was in critique that they taught us to think about ourselves and our own context within this time and place. It was also in critique that it was pretty much decided whether or not you would be allowed to return to finish the next 3 years, which would be dedicated to your major. Critique had two effects on people, a negative effect and a positive effect, that was it's purpose. If during critique you cried and ran away at the harsh opinions of others, you were first scolded and then if you repeated that behavior they simply asked you leave. If you made it through cirtique, it was assumed you could handle the world's opinion too and succeed. It was a pretty good school, it's right up there with Harvard and Yale in far as competiveness, and you'll find pretty much the same situation at any of those colleges.. Cry, repeatedly voice your own opinion without considering others, especially in context to known information, and you get cut.

I graduated in 1982 with a BFA, so if you want to discuss Michelangelo, you are in the right place. If you want to tell me your definitions are different, well I can't help you because I don't live on an island alone by myself so the agreed upon and well known definitions, history and context, are important to me even if they don't matter to you.

Essentially, end of conversation. It's not I who lives on my own planet but yourself.

I went to college here:
http://www.cooper.edu

Here is cooper in a list of most competitive colleges for 2008:
http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandr...ge/rankings/brief/webex/lowacc_brief.php

and it holds that place rank for academics consistently wherever you look every year, generally always right behind Harvard.

I don't see any nebraska schools on the list. So, even though you have repeatedly called me uneducated and ignorant for believing in God, I beg to differ. You are describing yourself.

Here's one of my paintings btw:
<img src="http://herballure.com/ForumExtras/Images/zazbxpwvog.jpg">

You may have seen my work in public places also, it's around. Obviously when my hands were numb from mercury poisoning it really worried me. so all of your cilantro jokes can hit the garbage pail too.

I am going to do series of Jesus paintings in the not too far off future too. Michelangelo style.