Tag: reading

  • Required Reading is Draconian and Stupid

    Professors, stop requiring reading. Instead, require engagement. Require response. Require conversation. Require a challenge. It seems incredibly sad that I have to say this, but requiring someone to do something because you are an expert or an authority is not how you teach. This is more along the lines of how to be a bad…

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  • How Do You Do That?

    Summer goes slow around here, but what goes slow runs deep. 2 AM. I’m waiting on a bus to take me from the humid sidewalk to my nice, cool apartment. “Hey, Steve? Is that you?” I recognize him, but not in the suit he’s wearing. He’s recently graduated and explains to me he’s headed home…

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