Barbara Johnson
Barbara Johnson
Barbara Johnsonwas an American literary critic and translator, born in Boston. She was a Professor of English and Comparative Literature and the Fredric Wertham Professor of Law and Psychiatry in Society at Harvard University. Her scholarship incorporated a variety of structuralist and poststructuralist perspectives—including deconstruction, Lacanian psychoanalysis, and feminist theory—into a critical, interdisciplinary study of literature. As a scholar, teacher, and translator, Johnson helped make the theories of French philosopher Jacques Derrida accessible to English-speaking audiences in the United States...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionCritic
Date of Birth4 October 1947
CountryUnited States of America
Since I don't have any kids of my own, it's a challenge for me. But it's the best thing that ever happened to me. This gave me an opportunity to raise them and teach them things.
Teaching literature is teaching how to read. How to notice things in a text that a speed-reading culture is trained to disregard, overcome, edit out, or explain away; how to read what the language is doing, not guess what the author was thinking; how to take evidence from a page, not seek a reality to substitute for it.
Are our ways of teaching students to ask some questions always correlative with our ways of teaching them not to ask - indeed, to be unconscious of - others? Does the educational system exist in order to promulgate knowledge, or is its main function rather to universalize a society’s tacit agreement about what it has decided it does not and cannot know?
I shouldn't have to live in a dump like this. If I could just move somewhere else ... I'd be happy.
Never let a problem to be solved become more important than the person to be loved.
Everyone had a great, great time. It was a great day of racing and the conditions were pretty good.
It's been a wonderful way for everybody to come together and enjoy a spring evening with family and friends.
It sends a bad message when they can just allow their building to become run down because they just don't want to preserve it.
I think living to be one hundred would be great, but living to fifty twice would be so much better.
A lot of kneeling keeps one in good standing.
When we have hope, we are showing that we trust God to work out the situation. Trust is the only way we're going to make it through and be a part of God's marvelous plan for His child.
Old florists never die. They just make other arrangements.
All we can take with us to heaven is what we leave behind in the lives we touch.
Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to go there right away.