Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers)

We’re in a new year, why not construct a syllabus?

Surely, a syllabus and it’s totally, tell-me-they-didn’t-do-this-just-for-the-fun-of-it plural form, syllabi is to higher education as those hard-cardboard, random-pattern covered composition books are to high school. Lets don the mortar and pestle of our mis-remembered school days and consider some topics for… what was the cool academic term for the semester without tests… directed study? free association, experimental free study…. life in a dormitory, days on a campus without parental interference?   … pretty sure it involved picking one professor but not on a dissertation level… damn, can’t remember,

Send in your comments and recommendations. There’s time. Nothing to do until we start this week’s TToT. Hey, I heard Lizzi re-did her FB page or something…. hold on, lemme go check. Here.

Speaking of Lizzi, in a reply to J’s comment on this week’s Six, I mentioned Cynthia. Both of them, (Lizzi and Cynthia) were the star pupils of the inaugural Freshman class of this here blog here.

(The term pupil is not appropriate, as you will see, but I got myself cornered in the school metaphor, and, well, you know. Go! Doctrinaires! Go! ….go? Doctrinaires?)

In any event, these two exceptional humans showed up at this place (“I don’t know… I heard there was this little shop down the alley, not big on street lights in this part of the virtual world, are they?”) independently following different paths,  here, way back, in, like, I don’t know, 2010…2011.

What made them exceptional was that they read what we had as a description of the Wakefield Doctrine and not only immediately understood the principles and the applications, they proceeded to extrapolate the concept within their own personal/local worlds, thereby increasing the vocabulary we have for our little personality theory.

Thanks, guys.

Friend of the Doctrine, Mimi, citing a line from an old post,

Of course i still like it after all this time, it’s fun, it’s my only form of amusement, and it gives me the illusion for a moment, when people comment, that maybe there is a place i belong after all.

reminds us all that, while the Wakefield Doctrine is fun and useful for people of all three personality types (clarks, scotts and rogers), it is, at heart, a place that offers a sense of belonging, otherwise not found in the personal reality of Outsiders.

(to give myself something to listen to during the day, the from a clarklike guitar player)