Re: Smoke one for...

In article <Xns9C55DB09D57A1goddardbenetscapenet@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Bart Goddard <goddardbe@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


...education. I don't know when it died, but it's
so dead today, the stench is detectable on Mars.


I didn't know you were a math prof. That explains SO much. :)

(Seriously, though: my pop is a math prof and a conservative Dem.)

I have to say, I agree with you, though. I'm taking a few prep courses
to get my MSW and have just gotten through with psych, now taking
anthropology. It's so much different than what college was when I
graduated almost 20 years ago. This is high school stuff. In the current
class, we have a "quiz" before every class...ONLINE...it's ten
questions, multiple choice and true/false, and obviously we can use our
books. Yet some of the students are having problems with them. I took an
exam a week ago and aced it; other students had problems with it. The
exam was 25 questions, multiple-choice, true/false, and five
fill-in-the-blanks with the answers given in a cloud below to choose
from. I would have aced this in high school. As an adult in college, I
find it insulting.

And people wonder why I'm arrogant!
.

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