Joanna
Jim wrote:
>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:
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>
>
>>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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>>
>>--
>>________________________________________
>>`And these words shall then become
>>Like oppression's thundered doom
>>Ringing through each heart and brain,
>>Heard again -- again -- again--
>>`Rise like Lions after slumber
>>In unvanquishable number--
>>Shake your chains to earth like dew
>>Which in sleep had fallen on you--
>>Ye are many -- they are few.'
>>--------Shelley, "The Mask of Anarchy:
>>Written on the Occasion of the Massacre at
>>Manchester" [1819]
>>
>>
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