Wednesday, April 25, 2012 at 8:25AM | by Otter Read this post to be purged of pity and terror. Excerpt:
Well… give the student credit for trying to be specific. He does not merely generalize about the fact that we see “a female woman run for president” or “woman owner there own business.” He names names: heaily client.
Thursday, March 29, 2012 at 10:28AM | by Otter He wanted to write his research paper on science and Christianity. Against my better judgment, I let him do it: he wasn’t terribly clear what he wanted to say about it, but he seemed to have a belief that science “comes after” Christianity…
Wednesday, March 21, 2012 at 7:58AM | by Otter Sample from Student’s Paper:
As a studnet, it’s hard. I aim at the mark, but sometimes I miss it. For example; I asked out a fantastic female from class for the club, and she said she would think about it. That was 2 years ago n she never called me back.
My comment in the margin:
Give it up, man. She’s so not n 2 u.
Thursday, March 1, 2012 at 10:25AM | by Otter You cannot handle morally what you do not understand. So in class, we attempt to understand.
They do not like it when people over forty discuss the rhetoric of ads like this…. I think after class they all ran out to go home and bleach their brains.
I think too that they’re so savvy in some ways, and they dislike being made to feel that a hip awareness of coercive relationships isn’t their sole property.
But that’s good: the first step in a good education is probably the recognition that none of your ideas are all that original yet.
Education, Higher Education in Culture, Education Monday, February 20, 2012 at 8:53PM | by Otter Reactions to an absolutely astonishing conversation by Tulane sorority girls after a Mardi Gras parade:
Hey, Tulane girls. Marry somebody smart and bright. You’re too stupid to be allowed to survive on your own.
You betray quite clearly that if you ever read a serious book it slid right by you.
You make quite clear that if you have any ideas in your head besides sex and pleasure and drugs and alcohol, it makes no mark on your soul.
You’re a disgrace to the idea of “women’s education,” and a betrayal of your gender, and the only thing you have going for you at present is the idea that your cunts* have some currency. Congratulations: you’ve squandered the faith that your foremothers placed in you.
With luck, that faith isn’t misplaced elsewhere.
*This distasteful word was brought up by the girls themselves, who used this term of other people not once, but several times.
Otter
From a RipChurch regular reader:
I see this more as a self esteem issue.
I agree. Among other things.
Let them get out of the way and work out their self-esteem issues in some nursery and let somebody who cares about learning get on with the work of higher education.
What a waste of university-space, and parents’ tuition dollars. Tulane University seems, judging by its students’ public behavior, to be summer camp for adolescents, not a place of learning.
Education, Secondary Education in Education Tuesday, December 13, 2011 at 11:42AM | by Otter “Hey can u please change my final grade? Im begging u please i need to pass…”
Saturday, December 3, 2011 at 8:29AM | by Otter White students and black ones seem to have been educated with the idea that race is something that's disappeared from America along with its history. It seems though rude to discuss it, an embarrassment.
Friday, November 11, 2011 at 9:26AM | by Otter I wasn’t surprised that they struggled. I was a little depressed that 18-50 year olds with the right to vote simply could not do it.
Wednesday, October 19, 2011 at 9:14AM | by Otter
Updated on Wednesday, October 19, 2011 at 6:22PM by
Otter
The research paper was a form developed when research was a real labor, a way of acquiring knowledge. Because the tools and mechanics were slow, sluggish, and difficult, we were essentially tracing the growth of our own minds on a topic.
Now the tools are slick, rapid, and almost independent of the human researcher. Now, the research paper is merely compiling. No real learning has to take place: indeed, it's perfectly possible to write a research paper of which the student-writer has only read a few lines.
