[lbo-talk] the 50-word story

joanna 123hop at comcast.net
Tue Oct 18 09:27:07 PDT 2005


Man, I hate it when profs dump on students. Sudents are students. They're big kids, just hardly starting to disentangle themselves from their parents, while looking into the looming abyss of the 9-5.

C'mon.

Joanna

Michael Hirsch wrote:


> 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
> <mailto: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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