[lit-ideas] Re: The bullshit stamp
- From: wokshevs@xxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, Paul Stone <pastone@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 6 Oct 2007 18:12:00 -0230
Quoting Paul Stone <pastone@xxxxxxxxx>:
> >
> > If he were as good a teacher as he was a philosopher, I don't think he'd
> > agree
> > with your reading of the marginalia. You missed a good opportunity to
> > clarify
> > your thought for him and then see what his response would have been.
> > Sarcasm
> > and rhetorical questions do not belong in professional feedback to
> > students on
> > their work.
> >
>
> I had a professor in a Philosophy course who, at the end of my 25 page essay
> simply put a 'B' with no comments throughout the entire paper.
> I went to him and said "Well, how can I get a better mark?" And he said
> "Write a better paper." My response was "Meaning what, precisely!" I never
> got any kind of an answer. 19 years later, I still fondly remember him as an
> obtuse asshole!
>
> paul
And I'm sure that that memory of him is shared by many other people who were
unfortunate enough to be his students. I slave over my students' essays; it's
indeed a form of "prayer" if that means anything in an atheistic context.
Walter O.
MUN
>
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