[lbo-talk] the 50-word story

Jim from_alamut at yahoo.com
Tue Oct 18 15:18:40 PDT 2005


hmmm...maybe a friend of mine who teaches was not being much of an ass when he said everything in the text could be on the test and then proceeded to use test questions based only on material in the footnotes and picture captions.....

jim

--- Michael Hirsch <mmh655 at gmail.com> 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>
> 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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> Heard again -- again -- again--
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> Shake your chains to earth like dew
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> Written on the Occasion of the Massacre at
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