Re: unteachable? everybody is!

[Shaw SuEllen <shaws@mhd1.moorhead.msus.edu>]

Lee,

This reminds me of Neil Postman's book from the late 60's:  Teaching as a 
Subversive Activity.  He understood your position exactly.

SuEllen

 On Tue, 6 Feb 1996, Lee Hammer wrote:

> Actually "interesting students" for me is a wonderful challenge of
> subversion.  I think successful teaching is getting students interested
> without their knowing it happened.  And often when I'm working particularly
> hard on recalcitrants, the others get even more subverted by coming to my aid.
> 
> One more thing: it does me a lot of good to sit "out there" every so often.
> Nothing helps me more with the "interestingness" of my teaching than for me
> to be stuck in a CCCC concurrent session (for instance) that is boring me
> out of my gourd.  I often use such occasions to reflect on what could be
> going on at the front of classrooms.
> 
> Dr. Lee Hammer 
> English
> Culver-Stockton College
> Canton, MO
> 
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