Another classroom exercise

["Craven, Jim" <JCraven@xxxxxxxxx>]

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Tomorrow, when I go back to the classroom, as I have done on other occasions, each of my classes will be told that during the course of the term, there will be four key lectures whose content will most definitely be covered on exams. These lectures will be total bullshit: phony sources, phony data bases, logical fallacies, math errors, etc and these lectures will be delivered straight without any indication that the content is total bullshit. If the students uncritically copy down the stuff during lecture without checking it out or waiting until the night before an exam, they will find the "right answer" from their notes; only the "right answer" will be from one of the bullshit lectures that will not be correct if they have failed to cross-check what they are being handed in class. I note that these lectures willl be delivered with all "sincerity" and note Groucho Marx's axiom: "The two keys to success are honesty and sincerity; and if you can fake those, the sky is the limit."

 

Jim C.

 

 

James M. Craven

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