The Clausewitz Roundtable Cometh….

December 17th, 2008 by zen

If a participant wants to put up some short post pertaining to the roundtable, prior to the formal beginning date, I leave that to each person’s discretion, but request that no one “jump the gun” with any substantive post prior to the first week.

5. Each participant should feel free to respond to issues raised by other participants in their posts, leave comments on posts, crosspost on their own blogs, or otherwise engage in “lateral” dialogue about the book. Such lateral engagement is encouraged. Disagreement and argument of a civil and productive nature is also encouraged.

6. Mechanics. Each post shall have a title “Clausewitz, On War, Book __:” then the title the participant is using for the specific post, after the colon. This will help everyone keep track of where each participant is in the book. Each post shall be labelled with the category “Clausewitz Roundtable”.

Those are your marching orders.

I believe these instructions give everyone scope for creativity, within a consistent framework.

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  1. Seerov:

    December 17th, 2008 at 3:43 pm

    Zen, your biography always says that you’re a "teacher."  I have learned a lot from your writings but do you actually "teach" anything formally?  High school history?  Kindergarten?  Sunday School?

  2. zen:

    December 17th, 2008 at 6:11 pm

    Hi Seerov,
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    Gracias! At one time or another, I’ve formally worked with students from Kindergarten to adults to special subpopulations (gifted, At-Risk) to periodically giving presentations on methodology or curriculum to teachers interested in best practice.  For teaching history, I like middle school and High School upperclassmen best. College undergrads would be fine too but I don’t have the time to do that; cost-benefit ratio not worth it just to do a section on a p/t basis.

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  4. YT:

    December 25th, 2008 at 7:48 am

    Zen : In your excitement, you’ve placed the dates for the year 2008 instead of 2009.

  5. zen:

    December 25th, 2008 at 5:54 pm

    Hi YT,
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    Heh. Not my excitement, that was a cut n’ paste quote but thank you for catching that. Fixed. Merry Christmas !