Satoru: I've been through lessons like this.
Melissa: Yeah. Some professors are so engrossed in their own thought that they forget the outside world.
Liao: We need a balanced vision: a keen awareness of our audience as well as a clear idea of the instructional target.
Tim: You make teaching sound as if it were a military exercise.
Liao: In one sense, it is.

Philosophy Lesson

Instructor: Nowwewillbeginourlectureonepistemologybyexplainingsomeaspectsof
            cartesianscepticisminthelightoffoucaultsconceptofarchaeologybys
            tatingthatsincerationalexperimyntofmostisatransitorydevelopment
            ofustriggercomplexificationandinthefaunevarsearesilfregulatingb
            ottherebusomnuusthepirtofistthemythinwhechauniverseframmuchramo
            dellengesinseparabletilifeanyexistswithbeingfallyandloveanswunt
            undorsetasfyactionswhateverargunusmfromdovelopevolutionary. . .

Student 1:  Teacher, may I go to the bathroom?

Instructor: Yes do so - andwisdomflowsfromthispropositionforDescartesthough
            tescapescepticismweshoulhaagendastheexistenceofistinceperceptio
            nstoreliablysureourclaimstoknowledgefarfromsecureyetcertainques
            tionsarenotconcernedwiththewaysthingsultimatelyarebutratherourk
            nowledgeofthemandthatisbecausetheuneverseofsoftopossibleinderst
            abandonlongingacitemporineauswullshallbotheawefremwhachwaviewre
            lugionwhichosuppesudtoexistenceandshowstheuncrassrsetoeverathen
            gtotalbeteachlifeisseparotudfrimthuenderstanding . . .

Student 2:  Teacher, I think I need to go to the bathroom, too.

Instructor: Hmm - if there is anexistentialimperativethatimperialistroaders
            whofailtoseethewisodomofmaoexistthrutrealpolitikandclasstruggle
            sandwallsofsexualitewasamadhouseisolatedtoreasoninwhichintentio
            nbecomeslikeapanopticoninwhichhumanurgesstranglestrangerthingsa
            sthebrainmutatesintonewchemistriesforthinkingisanindicationofne
            possiblieniversedevelopungwhuchprocessifitexistsinasensuofchosu
            ppesudtoexistenceandshowstheuncrassrsetoeverathengtotalbeteachl
            ifeisseparotudfrimthuenderstandingtwhotexestsspringfremthutreal
            atyandfarmaccerdswall . . .

Student 3:  Err, could you explain next week's homework?

                       Klangggggggggggggggggu! [The class bell]

Instructor: Ahh, Pavlov's Bell! Class dismissed. Next week we willconsidert
            herelationbetweenWittengensteinundmetaphyisicsinlightofcognitiv
            elinguisticsandpostmorderntheoriesoftextprocessing. Are you cle
            ear on this?
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