Why I don't teach...

My style would be to reward knowledge and punish ignorance through the use of insults and humiliation. Much like Dr. House. I wouldn't last very long.

An may the gods help them if I ever saw one of my students on Jaywalking. That poor schlemazel would never hear the end of it.

...because I've yet to have an adult student tell me her/his mommy is forcing them to take violin lessons.

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I'd get a gaint FAIL stamp made up for use on papers. And as I hand them back I'd shout out the results to the entire classroom.

The classroom would have a specail section called the "failboat." Every week, grades would be totalled up and those whose grades place them in FAIL will be required to sit in the failboat. Students in the failboat would be open to razzing riffing and ridicule (strictly restricted to their academic status in that class) from thier fellow students. Hoiwever, if a student in the failboat is called on, gives a correct answer, and is insulted by a student outside the failboat, the two switch places for the rest of the period.

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special as specail? :rofl:

He had a "crap" stamp and a stamp of a toilet. If he really didn't think your essay was good, you got both, with an arrow showing where one should go in the other.

I like that idea!

The catch: He would grade us on our grammar. As one of the few grad students in the class, I told the kids to forget about it, half of us (myself included) would fail on penmanship alone.

I'd be more concern with bad spelling and improper apostrophe use. But that would be as far as it goes.

I think I remember that class. It was just between recess and gym

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2VUhoD3vM9Q&feature=PlayList&p=7CEC078881FEBD21&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=23

then weigh papers afterwards.

heavier papers get lower grades.


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people who would be ashamed to be arrested for physically beating a child seem to have no problem with verbally abusing a child, personally i think both categories of so-called adult should be executed at dawn

sarcasm, insults, and humiliation have no place in teaching

i hope you don't have kids at home either

that's just soo soo ugly

i've always despised the kind of person who watched witticisms and sarcasms being used for humor on teevee or in the movies, who then actually thinks you're supposed to talk like that use insult humor/sarcasm in real life

when i rule the world, i will execute all the sarcastic and all those who use insult humor in school, home, and workplace, and the world will be a much better place

insults and humiliation are how small, wretched, miserable excuses for crap pretend that they're better than the rest of us

house is a fucking teevee show, leave the sarcasm and insults to the dark hidden corners of your inner mind, don't put them out on display any more than you'd wank off in public...jeez how hard is that?

I'm thicker-skinned that it sounds here, but I'm sure that it had something to do with my lack of interest in the subject. You catch more friends with honey than with vinegar :shrug:

but in the wrong way. Never took an art class after that.

Descartes and his wrongness, and my teachers determination to believe that he was all knowing.

and it worked pretty well. It was 56 years ago when Bull Cameron said to me, "You, boy! You have begged the question!" I've never forgotten and never again assumed what is to be proved. As a teacher, though, I only harass the very smart students, the ones who can fight back. And they do.

Mainly, that I am pretty sure that no one would pay me to teach an 18 credit course in "everything".