Re: No Exit & Sartre

In article <DloSe.6286$9i4.4152@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Heather Rose Jones <heather.jones@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> David Friedman wrote:
>
> > In article <19swwqbsm0125$.1owzbx8n74zgp.dlg@xxxxxxxxxx>,
> > "Brian M. Scott" <b.scott@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> >
> >>>Don't get me started on the idiocy of judging how well
> >>>someone knows physiology (for example) based on their
> >>>social interactions.
> >>
> >>That would indeed be idiotic. If you read the whole thread,
> >>however, you'll find that it isn't what is going on in Pat's
> >>class. Making the course grade depend on social interaction
> >>skills as well as knowledge of physiology and (if I remember
> >>correctly) analytical skills is a very different thing
> >>indeed. I'm not myself terribly keen on the idea, but it's
> >>certainly far more defensible than your straw man.
> >
> >
> > Not so much a straw man as an example of how that approach can be, and
> > in one case was, abused. It's possible, of course, that Pat's school has
> > things set up in ways that prevent such abuse.
> >
>
> Do we have convincing evidence that, in Justin's case, it
> _was_ abused? I note that the description of the teacher's
> approach somehow mutated from "politely asking me after
> class not to raise my hand so often because it was
> intimidating the other children" in one posting to
> "tell[ing] the bright student to shut the
> hell up" in a later posting.

I have now checked back up the thread. The quote from Justin at the top
of this wasn't about the problem of asking students not to raise their
hands. The full quote was:

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Don't get me started on the idiocy of judging how well someone knows
physiology (for example) based on their social interactions. My
patience with that type of idiocy was annihilated by a teacher who
graded me down from A+ work to a B- grade because I started an
out-of-class study group that "created bad feelings in the work group"
because someone's boyfriend cheated on them with someone else in the
study group.

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