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NYT plea for “Lecture me. Really.”

A friend sent me the following link about the value of lectures in the humanities. http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/18/opinion/sunday/lecture-me-really.html My response follows. ———————————– I get the point, and I do agree that lectures can be good in certain contexts, but the professor who … Continue reading

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Sigh

This story is not necessarily worth a post, but it is a humorous lesson in how different people see the same set of circumstances/event in different ways: Senior: “I only read the first chapter in [some course] last semester.” Me: … Continue reading

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A little comic relief

The two passages below are vocab quizzes from two of my students.  The control of tone is especially fine, I think, since although there are some obvious exaggerations, you can’t always be sure what is at least semi-serious and what … Continue reading

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