The Ribbon Cutting Post

Hello, and welcome to The Consuasor Report. This is going to be a blog for the fall semester of 2008 (and maybe beyond?) where I plan to write on higher education, life-long learning, life at OSU, things I think might help psychology, economics, American Studies, and liberal studies majors in particular, and will just generally raise the over-all discourse of the blogosphere with erudite opinions and reflections, haha. As you can see, I've already raised the vocabulary of the blogosphere by being the one and only blog that uses the Latin word for "advisor" in its title. A little secret, I had to look that up myself as I am not as familiar with the language of the Romans as I would like to be. I think I will close this post with a quote from a man who wouldn't have needed to look "consuasor" up - Thomas Jefferson. I think it says rather well how important learning, the over-arching theme of this blog, is for our country or any country for that matter: " If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be." Let that sink in and then give it the needed twist when you reflect upon the fact that the man who wrote that owned people he purposely kept ignorant.