Author: Steve
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Bad Teacher
I’ve become a very bad teacher recently and I’d like to figure out why. Reflecting on what a bad teacher is, I’ve come up with the following ideas All of these things are elements of bad teaching and being bad at teaching, but perhaps the bad teacher is someone who just disregards these and doesn’t…
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Rhetoric is too Important to be left to the institutional rhetoricians
Rhetoric historians – I know you are reading. Please let me know what the analogue is to this issue? I beg you, I need to read some of the historical material. Rhetoric has been ruined by the Institutional Rhetoricians. By this I mean rhetoricians who think NCA is more important than rhetoric; that NCA represents…
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Bad Teaching is Debate Coaching
Still thinking about what makes bad teaching/good teaching. I found this atrocious lecture from “debate coaches” supposedly teaching the best and brightest young debaters at an exclusive “forum” for debate at Emory University. The Barkley Forum doesn’t seem to have any quality control standards. We get a route lecture that is thin, vapid, and incorrect…
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The God Damn University Athletic Department
Known as the “grease trap” or “drip tray” or “Spill tray” of employment, the University Athletic department is one of the things that needs to be eliminated from the university in totality. Why? University athletics is like an addictive drug to the administration. They see it as easy mode, a way to attract tuition-paying students…
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I Taught a Terrible Class Today
I thought the class would be great. Why was it so bad? First of all, what’s a bad class? Definitions abound! I would say for me a bad class means: I should have prepared differently. I should have spent more time thinking about the material, which was very familiar to me. The death of good…
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Don’t Listen to Debate Coaches about Political Debates
There’s no reason to listen to debate coaches when they are interviewed by the media on Presidential debates or any election debates. The reason is obvious: Collegiate or High-School debate has no connection to political debating. Debate coaches love attention and love being in the media. The reason they are trusted on these matters is…
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Future Rhetoric
A Lot is going on right now for me this September and it’s all rotating around the idea of the future of rhetoric. Got a very interesting call for papers for the journal Informal Logic about a special issue on this topic. Got an email from the President of the University about downsizing and the…
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Up Early With a Dog
My life has radically changed since I was last blogging. I moved to the suburbs, got a dog, a partner, a car, and I’m up before the sun. My partner gets up early for work so I get up pretty early too. I think it’s nice to have some time in the morning together. As…
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Nothing Quite Like WordPress
Looks like I’m back on BlueHost typing away. Watching a little football today and got nostalgic for my old WordPress site. So here we are again, three years later, doing it. I have a number of substack posts that I might import but then again why? I will probably just rewrite them with some edits…
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