medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
is "high education" a howler? If it is you can hang it on your door --
we're supposed to be the one's bringing a little levity and life to this
whole endeavour -- in the sciences they teach how to do things, we're
supposed be giving them an insight into the why and little bit of humor is
vital.
Stephen Mark Carey, Ph.D.
Department of German Studies
117 Trimble Hall
Emory University
Atlanta, GA 30322
On Tue, 18 May 2004, Stephen Mark Carey wrote:
> medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
>
> > Learning experience? The profs I personally know post howlers on their
>
> Yes. And if you can't take it, you're probably not emotionally ready to
> learn. Naturally it depends on how it's done. But if you can't laugh at
> what you don't know, you won't learn. And I enjoy me own howlers as much
> as the students. I remember in one of my own undergradate papers I wrote:
>
> . . . it includes a placenta of information (plethura) and when you go
> into another language the fun escalates. If done in a mean spirit it's
> bad but a healthy awareness of our faults and the ability to laugh at them
> is vital to learning. Unfortunately, sometimes it seems these days as if
> the aim of high education has become to learn the art of successfully
> hiding what you don't know, rather than expanding on what you do know any
> one who would claim that's there's something you could learn is a
> . . . "flavor of the week"ist.
>
> o weh
>
> > culture
> >
> > It's a learning experience for them. Virtually all these howlers arise
> > as a
> > result of students mishearing things in class, not doing any
> > background
> > reading and reproducing their lecture notes in exams and assignments.
> > Some
> > of us give in and supply them with lists of difficult names etc, others
> > are
> > not so kind.
> >
> > Maddy
> >
> >
> > Dr Madeleine Gray, in the foothills of God's golden county of Gwent
> > School of Humanities and Science, University of Wales, Newport
> > Caerleon Campus, PO Box 179, Newport NP18 3YG. Tel: +44 (0)1633.432675
> >
> > 'A good thesis is like a pig. You don't throw anything away, and even
> > after
> > decades you can still re-use it.' (Umberto Eco)
> >
> > History at University of Wales, Newport: http://timezone.newport.ac.uk
> >
> > Gwent County History Association website:
> > http://gwent-county-history-association.newport.ac.uk
> > Cistercian Way: http://cistercian-way.newport.ac.uk
> >
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