[PEN-L:30241] Re: Reply to Marc Cooper

[Sabri Oncu <soncu@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Doug wrote:
> Of course not. It's always best to ignore
> people you disagree with, unless you want
> to hold them up as negative exempla for mocking.

I loved my students. This is the thing I miss the most about
academe. There was this student in one of my classes: he was not
only obnoxious but also not so smart and we disagreed on almost
anything including math. He even kept disagreeing with me while I
was trying to teach. Of course, I did not hold him up as negative
exempla for mocking but he was such a hopeless case that I had no
choice but to ignore him for the benefit of the rest of the
class.

Now, we can summarize the above into the following theorem:

Sometimes, it is best to ignore people you disagree with.

Sabri