Warning: The Literary Canon Could Make Students SquirmStrange | 207263 hits | May 20 11:36 am | Posted by: N_Fiddledog Commentsview comments in forum Page 1 2 You need to be a member of CKA and be logged into the site, to comment on news. |
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If some people had their way, the only book we'd read would be the Bible.
If some people had their way, the only book we'd read would be the Bible.
No kidding. I hate those jerks at Amazon!
If some people had their way, the only book we'd read would be the Bible.
No kidding. I hate those jerks at Amazon!
I have my kids old blackberry and I can read whatever I want for free, even in the dark.
Because Cats Rule.
As bad as this sounds, I'll take warnings over book bannings anyday. At least with this system, students can choose to read/not read a literary work.
If some people had their way, the only book we'd read would be the Bible.
Which could really trigger some people.
Thing is, if these students are that delicate, don't let them take the course. If they need the course to pass the program, don't let them pass the program. At some point they're going to have to join the real world to actually put that program to use.
Enough said.....
I could tell you guys stories easily the equal of these, and that was 20 years ago.
Then we graduate, move on and the radicals either eventually accept reality or go to work for the education board.
I don't know, I ran into this same thing when I was in student government, back in the mid-14th century. We were deciding on a name for a pizza joint (because this is teh kind of thing that student governments work on) and somebody suggested Slice Me Nice. We then got an extended lecture on the implicit misogynism in that name. I didn't want to see any "implicit misogynism" so I suggested the much more explicit "Bend Over Bitch Pizza." (Joking--that would have been an expellable offence.)
I could tell you guys stories easily the equal of these, and that was 20 years ago.
Then we graduate, move on and the radicals either eventually accept reality or go to work for the education board.
Maybe I'm naive, but when I hear Slice Me Nice, all I think of is this;