Quote from the ever eloquent and poetic Dean Fab:
On teaching. That the UPSE faculty maintains a romance with creative thinking should be a given; it should however maintain on the side a romance with the tuition of its harvests. In UPSE, we did not and in future shall never tolerate the neglect of our tutees on the pretext of more important involvements. There are none such. Our tuition is the precious pipeline for the propagation of our DNA and to a better future.
In the past I have as a mark of endearment referred to UPSE as “Camelot”. The roots of this imagery goes back to the 80’s when UPSE stood as a forlorn and even maligned contrarian in the University campus: it stood for the market economics when the most swore by the Socialist command economy. We were labeled the imperialist running dogs, stooges of the hated World Bank and IMF and even jukebox economists. Nonetheless, as Pepe repeatedly observed, “we were outnumbered, but were never outgunned.” If we were on trial, we pleaded guilty only to “rigor of logic and clarity of thinking.” UPSE like Camelot was a beacon of light then; UPSE will be a Camelot thence.
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