[lit-ideas] Re: Proof that the world improves, possibly

  • From: Robert Paul <robert.paul@xxxxxxxx>
  • To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2005 19:17:29 -0700

david ritchie wrote:

Her essay referred to primary documents, to the text book and to this scholarly work. Though it was limited in its understanding of differences between the past and the present, it was rhetorically complex and I would have been quite happy to see it turned in by a freshman.

Today she came home with the news that she has to re-write the essay.
"What was wrong with it?" I asked.
"You're not allowed to use outside sources. The teacher says they complicate things. And you have to underline your thesis and the thesis of each paragraph and mark with red pen..." 

It's a well known fact among educationists that thinking damages the mind.

Robert Paul
Professor of Educationolgy
Mutton College
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