02-11-2010, 08:31 PM
Winston?Smith Wrote:This is why Klempner is considered the guru of distance learning.
Or the Quentin Tarantino of DL. Wouldn't it be cool if Hitler had died in a burning movie theater? Who cares if it didn't really happen, makes a neat story.
Klempner writes the joke first, arranges the "facts" to set it up. Ha ha, James Kirk, yuh know, like on Star Trek, ha ha, selling fake diplomas. But his name was Thomas Kirk. Kinda spoils the joke, eh? What the hell, just ignore it!
The difference, though, would be that while most people understand that Tarantino's fantasies are works of fiction intended to entertain, they believe Klempner's are works of "research." So you get, for example, an entire Pedopedia page for "James Kirk" even though the cited news stories correctly show his name as "Thomas J. Kirk II." Klempner's fantasies become his clones' realities.

