<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1"> <title></title> </head> <body> Teacher: sometimes another word for "sadist." Sometimes I do understand the cultural revolution. I do, I do, I do. Joanna Jim wrote: <blockquote type="cite" cite="mid20051018221840.78693.qmail@web54511.mail.yahoo.com"> <pre wrap="">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 <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:mmh655@gmail.com"><mmh655@gmail.com></a> wrote: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">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 <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:mikedjyates@msn.com"><mikedjyates@msn.com></a> wrote: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">When I was about to retire from full-time college </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap="">teaching, I sent out </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">several rather caustic fulminations about our </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap="">colleges. When I complained </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">about students, someone on one of these lists took </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap="">me to task and said </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">that I had to learn how to deliver things in discrete </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap="">five-minute sound bites </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">to accommodate today's low-attention-span students. </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap="">That was five years ago. </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">Probably be two-minutes now. Glad I quit. Michael Yates ___________________________________ </pre> </blockquote> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/mailman/listinfo/lbo-talk">http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/mailman/listinfo/lbo-talk</a> </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap=""> -- ________________________________________ `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] </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">___________________________________ </pre> </blockquote> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/mailman/listinfo/lbo-talk">http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/mailman/listinfo/lbo-talk</a> Jim Davis Ozark Bioregion, USA My latest books: "The Shia Imami Ismaili Muslims: A Short Introduciton<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="http://www.lulu.com/content/114194">" http://www.lulu.com/content/114194 "</a>Pure Land Now!<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="http://www.lulu.com/content/116320">" http://www.lulu.com/content/116320 "</a>Vision and Praxis" <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.lulu.com/content/132902">http://www.lulu.com/content/132902</a> ___________________________________ <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/mailman/listinfo/lbo-talk">http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/mailman/listinfo/lbo-talk</a> </pre> </blockquote> </body> </html>