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.
Sunday, June 13, 2010 at 10:40PM | by Otter Most of the time it's not what students don't know that hampers them: their natural curiosity will fill that in.
It's getting rid of the false assumption that they know anything....
When the man says, "Bone of my bone / flesh of my flesh / she shall be called Ishah for out of Ish she was taken," they have to feel that one in the groin, not the vague dull pedagogical theological node of the brain that lectures them about the sanctity of marriage.
Otherwise, much of what follows remains dark to them.
Wednesday, June 2, 2010 at 9:34AM | by Otter
Updated on Tuesday, May 1, 2012 at 10:23PM by
Otter
You’re reading historically, as though this were the documentation of facts about “what happened.” This is a huge mistake in any story with a main character named Humankind, a setting called The Garden of Delight, and a talking animal.
