[lbo-talk] the 50-word story

Michael Hirsch mmh655 at gmail.com
Tue Oct 18 08:02:43 PDT 2005


For me, I knew the end was near when, back in the day in a discussion of Gramsci, a student asked "will this be on the test?"

Mike Hirsch

On 10/17/05, MICHAEL YATES <mikedjyates at msn.com> wrote:
>
> When I was about to retire from full-time college teaching, I sent out
> several rather caustic fulminations about our colleges. When I complained
> about students, someone on one of these lists took me to task and said
> that
> I had to learn how to deliver things in discrete five-minute sound bites
> to
> accommodate today's low-attention-span students. That was five years ago.
> Probably be two-minutes now. Glad I quit.
>
> Michael Yates
>
>
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