Re: No Exit & Sartre

In article <11g6pkol03c0hf9@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, pbowne@xxxxxxxxxx
says...
>
> "Lucy Kemnitzer" <ritaxis@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote
> >
> > I guess I was lucky. I had elementary school teachers who were
> > occasionally wrong and fessed up to their mistakes, and who enlisted
> > student experts to share their knowledge.
>
>
> I used to tutor high school algebra, and on one occasion told a student I
> didn't know something. She said she had never heard a teacher say that
> before.

It's not only distressingly rare, it tends to mess up a very few of the
students to the point they don't believe a word you say after that.
Unfortunate but true. And this at the freshman college level.

--
"I never understood people who don't have bookshelves."
--George Plimpton

Joann Zimmerman jzimm@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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