It is time Aristotle's Physics and his distinctions within causality were taken down from the shelf and dusted off. During adopts a Foucaultian position with respect to knowledge and power. When Professor During asserts, however, that 'what actually triggered the emergence of academic English was an intensification of European national rivalries for global domination', one would like rather more evidence. It's like judging an Australian university by the late Martin Johnston. There are rare students who, though they grace a campus like comets, bring more to it than it can ever give them.
Education is a two-way process.
Which During seems here to embrace. V Ban Ban, Caliban. And even if one is forced to accept, surely one can critique within that acceptance. Bite the hand that feeds one. Not just roll over and have one's tummy tickled.