Re: Another classroom exercise

[Michael Perelman <michael@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

cool it.

On Sun, Mar 28, 2004 at 02:04:52PM -0800, joanna bujes wrote:
> That's fucked. You have all the power and you're using it to humiliate
> your students. Great.
>
> Joanna
>
> Craven, Jim wrote:
>
> > 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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> >
> >

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Michael Perelman
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