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• 18:39, 24 February 2026 Robbie talk contribs created page A&E/Community (Created page with "In Robert McClintock’s work, '''community is not a static, abstract entity, but the vital, interpersonal matrix within which human beings conduct their lives, exercise judgment, and form themselves.''' He rejects the idea that a person can be understood in isolation; instead, human existence is deeply entwined with others, making the conduct of life a profoundly shared endeavor. McClintock defines the role of community in the conduct of life through several key dimens...")
• 16:04, 24 February 2026 Robbie talk contribs created page A&E/Circumstance (Created page with "In Robert McClintock’s work, the concept of "circumstances" (or circumstance, in the singular) is foundational to his understanding of human existence, education, and self-formation. He defines circumstances not merely as passive physical surroundings, but as the dynamic, interactive lifeworld in which a person is inextricably embedded. Drawing heavily from the philosophy of José Ortega y Gasset and the biology of Jakob von Uexküll, McClintock uses the concept in the...")
• 20:30, 21 February 2026 Robbie talk contribs moved page A&E/Original Ignorance to A&E/Primal Ignorance
• 18:28, 20 February 2026 Robbie talk contribs created page A (Created page with "<h2>Agency and Education<br>   A Study of Self-Formation and Formative Justice</h2> {{A&E/Intro}}<br> {{A&E/1939}}<br> {{A&E/1960}}<br> {{A&E/1882}}<br> {{A&E/2002}}<br> {{A&E/2016}}<br> {{A&E/Intro}}<br>")
• 15:57, 20 February 2026 Robbie talk contribs created page A&E/1960 (Created page with "<h2>1960-1982: Civic Pedagogy</h2> <h3><span ID="2.1¶"></span>2.1) </h3> {{A&E_top}}")
• 15:40, 20 February 2026 Robbie talk contribs moved page Talk:Robbie/Timeline RMCC to Talk:Agency and Education (Changing the page)
• 15:40, 20 February 2026 Robbie talk contribs moved page Robbie/Timeline RMCC to Agency and Education (Changing the page)
• 15:40, 20 February 2026 Robbie talk contribs deleted page Agency and Education (content was: "#REDIRECT Agency and Education--old", and the only contributor was "Robbie" (talk))
• 15:40, 20 February 2026 Robbie talk contribs moved page Agency and Education to Agency and Education--old
• 15:00, 20 February 2026 Robbie talk contribs moved page Talk:A&E/Start to Talk:A&E/1939
• 15:00, 20 February 2026 Robbie talk contribs moved page A&E/Start to A&E/1939
• 16:30, 16 February 2026 Robbie talk contribs created page A&E/Exploration (Created page with "Based on Robert McClintock's writings, '''exploration''' is the defining activity of the authentic student and the primary mechanism of "study." He uses the concept of exploration to distinguish genuine education from the passive reception of instruction, often employing the metaphor of the '''"philosophical explorer"''' versus the '''"superficial tourist."''' Here is a breakdown of how McClintock defines the role of exploration in his work: === 1. The Shift from "Tour...")
• 16:13, 16 February 2026 Robbie talk contribs created page A&E/Exemplars (Created page with "Based on Robert McClintock's work, the concept of '''exemplars''' (or exemplarity) is a cornerstone of his theory on how culture is transmitted and how communities are formed. He moves beyond the simple idea of a "role model" to describe a dynamic, reciprocal force that drives human development and social cohesion. Here is how McClintock defines and uses the concept of exemplars: === 1. The Dynamic of "Exemplarity and Aptness" === McClintock derives his primary underst...")
• 15:59, 16 February 2026 Robbie talk contribs created page A&E/Projects (Created page with "Based on Robert McClintock’s writings, the distinction between a '''life project''' and a '''pedagogical project''' is the difference between an existential condition (what a human being ''is'') and a methodological tool (how a student ''studies''). However, McClintock views them as deeply intertwined: the pedagogical project is the specific vehicle through which the student learns to manage the broader, overarching project of their own life. === 1. The Life Project:...")
• 15:31, 16 February 2026 Robbie talk contribs created page A&E/Original Ignorance (Created page with "Based on Robert McClintock's writings, particularly his later work on the ''StudyPlace'' project and ''Enough'', he addresses the concept of '''"primal ignorance"''' (a term he seemingly prefers over "original ignorance") as the fundamental existential condition of human life. Far from being a mere lack of data, he views this ignorance as the '''vital starting point''' for all authentic education and self-formation. Here is how McClintock defines and utilizes the concep...")
• 15:11, 16 February 2026 Robbie talk contribs created page A&E/Self-definition (Created page with "Based on Robert McClintock's writings, '''self-definition''' is not a static act of labeling oneself, but a continuous, dynamic process of '''self-formation''' (often referred to using the German term ''Bildung''). It is the central task of the autonomous person, involving the active shaping of one's character, capacities, and purposes within the constraints of their specific historical and cultural circumstances. Here is what McClintock says about self-definition: ===...")
• 14:58, 16 February 2026 Robbie talk contribs created page A&E/Autonomy (Created page with "In Robert McClintock's work, autonomy is a central, defining characteristic of human life and the fundamental premise of authentic education. He treats autonomy not merely as a political right or a goal to be achieved at graduation, but as an inherent, biological and existential capacity of the living person to direct their own formation. Here is a breakdown of how McClintock defines and uses the concept of autonomy across his corpus: 1. Definition: The Self-Norming Agen...")
• 20:01, 25 January 2026 Robbie talk contribs created page Talk:A&E/Start (1/25/2026)
• 10:00, 20 January 2026 Robbie talk contribs created page Agency and Education (Created page with "== Agency and Education == === A Study of Self-Formation and Formative Justice === ==== Introduction: Three Selves—Objective, Subjective, and Reflective ==== === A Case Study: My Formative Experience === ==== Getting started, 1939-1965: Childhood, Youth, and Education ==== ==== Civic Humanism—1960-1985 ==== ==== The Accidental Technologist—1980-2005 ==== ==== What Is Enough?—2000-on ==== === ...")
• 13:27, 19 January 2026 Robbie talk contribs created page Talk:A&E/Intro (Out-takes: 01/19/2026)
• 20:09, 18 January 2026 Robbie talk contribs created page User:Robbie/Notes and observations (Created page with "<div style="max-width: 650px;">")
• 13:28, 18 January 2026 Robbie talk contribs created page Template:A&E top (Created page with "Robbie/Timeline_RMCC")
• 12:56, 18 January 2026 Robbie talk contribs created page A&E/Intro (Created page with " Hi, Robbie, the author here. I should break in here to avoid misinterpretation and make explicit something important about "my story:" It is not a Sargent Friday, just-the-facts-ma'am story. "I-Robbie-me" has three distinct roles in the text. The first performs the central role, the subjective, intentional Robbie. He's the one the story is about. However central and significant, the intentional Robbie will often seem elusive, not because he's trying to hide, but because...")
• 12:37, 18 January 2026 Robbie talk contribs created page A&E/Start (Created page with "==== Getting started, 1939-1965: Childhood, Youth, and Education ==== <blockquote><big>Original Ignorance</big><br>As we are newly born, all of us know nothing about parents and their world of experience, about their and other's situations in time and place. Our natality inserts us into a full, actively developing world, uniquely situating each within it. As instances of self-maintaining life, we are thoroughly ignorant about what we can and should do. Knowing nothing, e...")
• 12:03, 13 January 2026 Robbie talk contribs created page Talk:Robbie/Timeline RMCC (The idiom, comme il faut: new section)
• 18:35, 10 January 2026 Robbie talk contribs moved page User:Robbie/Timeline RMCC to Robbie/Timeline RMCC without leaving a redirect
• 14:38, 31 December 2025 Robbie talk contribs moved page User:User:Robbie/Timeline RMCC to User:Robbie/Timeline RMCC
• 14:37, 31 December 2025 Robbie talk contribs moved page Timeline RMCC to User:User:Robbie/Timeline RMCC
• 14:06, 31 December 2025 Robbie talk contribs created page Master list (Created page with "<h2>Robbie's writing</h2> <ul> <li> 1960 An Excerpt from My College Journal</li> <li> 1964 Review of <i>Other Schools And Ours</i></li> <li> 1965 The Philosophy of Culture: A Study of Humanistic Pedagogy</li> <li>Texts:1966_Machines_and_Vitalists--Reflections_on_the_Ideology_of_Cybernetics | 1966...")
• 14:02, 31 December 2025 Robbie talk contribs created page Links to all my writing in pdf (Created page with "<h3>Master list of my writings in pdf</h3> * [https://rmcc4.com/pdf/1939_my_birth_certificate.pdf 1939 my birth certificate.pdf] * [https://rmcc4.com/pdf/1960_from_undergraduate_journal.pdf 1960 from undergraduate journal.pdf] * [https://rmcc4.com/pdf/1961_princeton_undergraduate_transcript.pdf 1961 princeton undergraduate transcript.pdf] * [https://rmcc4.com/pdf/1961_senior_thesis_princeton.pdf 1961 senior thesis princeton.pdf] * [https://rmcc4.com/pdf/1962_draft_ma_th...")
• 13:53, 31 December 2025 Robbie talk contribs created page Master List (Created page with "{{Setup|tick=Texts}} <div class="numsoff"> <h2>A master list of my writing</h2> <ul> <li> 1960 An Excerpt from My College Journal</li> <li> 1964 Review of <i>Other Schools And Ours</i></li> <li> 1965 The Philosophy of Culture: A Study of Humanistic Pedagogy</li> <li>Texts:1966_Machines_and_Vital...")
• 13:46, 31 December 2025 Robbie talk contribs created page Study Liberal Learning (Created page with "{{Setup|tick=Texts}} <div class="numsoff"> <h2>Essays on Study and Liberal Learning</h2> <h3>by Robbie McClintock</h3> <p class="bq">Reflections on the historical character and prospects for activities of study on liberal self-formation </p> <p class="bq">These are grouped. The first group includes most important, at least as I judge it, in the order of their importance. The middle group are interesting for the theme. The final group are marginal, but not irrelevant....")
• 13:44, 31 December 2025 Robbie talk contribs created page User:Robbie/My Writing (Created page with "{{Setup|tick=Texts}} <div class="numsoff"> <h2>My Writing</h2> *On Study and Liberal Learning *Master list of my writings in pdf")
• 13:41, 31 December 2025 Robbie talk contribs created page User:Robbie/My Canon (Created page with "{{Setup|tick=Texts}} <div class="numsoff"> <h2>My Canon</h2> <h3>Reflecting on Formative Influence</h3> <h3>by Robbie McClintock</h3> <p>A work in progress. Started Spring 2011 as a series of lectures at Teachers College, Columbia University. The draft material currently on the site comprises files originally drafted for the last course at Teachers College, <i>My Canon: Reflections on Formative Influence</i>, which I gave the spring semester, 2011. I plan to complete...")
• 13:39, 31 December 2025 Robbie talk contribs created page User:Robbie/My Lingo (Created page with "{{Setup|tick=Texts}} <div class="numsoff"> <h2>My Lingo 2025</h2> <p>As far back as I can remember, I have struggled to find the words to say what I want to say. What can and should I say, if anything? What do I think, actually? How can I express it? Where do the words come from? Will they express what I want to say? Will the person to whom I speak grasp what I intend to say? Am I uttering meaningless words, mindlessly by convention, deceptively with gile, foolishly wit...")
• 13:31, 31 December 2025 Robbie talk contribs created page User:Robbie/Closing Thoughts (Created page with " <h2>Closing Thoughts</h2>")
• 13:29, 31 December 2025 Robbie talk contribs created page User:Robbie/My Chronology (Created page with " * Closing Thoughts — Is it just me, or something larger? * My Chronology — Marking places, events, and persons significant in my life * My Lingo — Concepts and their vocabulary important to my understanding of life * My Canon — Formative influences, direct and mediated, on my thinking and acting * My Writing — Att...")
• 11:01, 23 November 2025 Robbie talk contribs created page Talk:TDC/Unfinished (Outtakes: new section) Tag: New topic
• 14:43, 22 November 2025 Robbie talk contribs created page TDC/Unfinished (Created page with "__NOTOC__ __NOTITLE__ {{Setup|tick=Campus}} <h1>Unfinished—A Working Life</h1> <blockquote>I have to hold on to the fact that I have my own life, and I have duties that I have to perform. I have a family to take care of. But I also have the same calling I did when I was young: to nourish and to do the work that I believe I was given the possibility to do. I’m not going to let anything shake that faith, no matter what kind of rubble or debris of our time I have to w...")
• 10:32, 16 September 2025 Robbie talk contribs created page User:Robbie/Franklin here (Created page with " <h3>If Franklin Were Here . . . </h3> <blockquote>When the Constitutional Convention completed its work, a well-wisher ask Benjamin Franklin what form of government, monarchy or republic, the new Constitution would establish for the United States. He replied, “A republic, Madame, if you can keep it.” </blockquote> <p>On this substack, we study what Benjamin Franklin then foresaw in adding “if you can keep it” to his response. With Franklin, we ask, How might we...")
• 15:31, 17 June 2025 Robbie talk contribs created page User:Robbie/Scratch (Created page with "<h3 >Manage voice access and microphone</h3> <table aria-label="" > <thead> <tr> <th> <p>To do this</p> </th> <th> <p>Say this</p> </th> </tr> </thead> <tbody> <tr> <td> <p>Get voice access to listen to you.</p> </td> <td> <p> <span >"Voice access wake up" </p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <p>Put voice access to sleep.</p> </td> <td> <p> <span >"Voice access sleep" "Mute"</span> </p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <p>Turn off the voice access microphone.</p> </td> <td> <p> <...")
• 09:47, 12 May 2025 User account Leibchen talk contribs was created by Robbie talk contribs
• 08:22, 25 April 2025 Robbie talk contribs moved page Scratch3 to Texts:RMcC/My Lingo 2025 without leaving a redirect
• 14:00, 17 April 2025 Robbie talk contribs created page Texts:Reflect/Overview (Created page with "__NOTITLE__ {{Setup|tick=Texts}} <div class="numsoff"> <h3>Introductory Overview to Reflections</h3>")
• 08:35, 15 March 2025 Robbie talk contribs created page User:Robbie/NoNav (Created page with "__NOTOC__ __NOTITLE__ {{Setup|tick=NoNav}}")
• 11:44, 11 March 2025 Robbie talk contribs created page User:Robbie/Biographical Highlights (Created page with "<h3>Biographical highlights</h3> <ul><li>Born in 1939 in New York City, I did well in good schools—Buckley (1948-53), Deerfield Academy (1953-57), Princeton (1957-61), Columbia (MA 1963, PhD 1968) — forming an interest in cultural history in relation to educational theory and practice.</li> <li>I had a long professorial career: Johns Hopkins (1965-67), Teachers College, Columbia (assist 1967-71, assoc 1971-81, full 1981-2001, chair 2001-11, and emeritus 2011-on). Two...")
• 10:30, 10 March 2025 Robbie talk contribs created page Texts:2025 The Imperative of Judgment (Created page with "__NOTOC__ __NOTITLE__ {{Setup|tick=Texts}} <div class="nums"> <h2>The Imperative of Judgment</h2> <blockquote class="numsoff">An unpublished draft from 1997.</blockquote> <p>We find ourselves in a world: to live, we must act, and we must act as best we can according to our judgment, whether in result it proves to be foolish or wise. To act according to our judgment, to suffer or enjoy the consequences, to judge anew, to act again, and ever on, that is the human condi...")
• 12:08, 3 March 2025 Robbie talk contribs created page Talk:TDC/Planning-Organization (Created page with " <i>Everything</i> comes into my life shrouded in the ignorance, which I paw away by thinking and acting, never sure or certain about it.")
• 15:51, 2 March 2025 Robbie talk contribs created page TDC/Planning-Organization (Created page with "__NOTOC__ __NOTITLE__ {{Setup|tick=Campus}} <h4>The Digital Campus</h4> <h2>Planning & Organization</h2> <h4>Develop the right tone & voice</h4> <p>What I have to say about <i>the digital campus</i> has a lot of personal meaning for me, and the urge to express it wells up from my life situation. I've become somewhat advanced in years, and feel priviledged to still have health and vitality. I feel drawn to reflect on what I've thought and done during those years, partly t...")
• 11:05, 2 March 2025 Robbie talk contribs moved page TDC/What-examples to TDC/Were without leaving a redirect