Word: classroom
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Students would also benefit on the receiving end. Rather than face yet another article by another historian or professor or theoretician, the classroom would be rejuvenated by the discussion of student work. Students would learn reap the benefits of each other's time, effort and thought, and their curiosity about what others had worked on would be sated. And we would be forced to develop the key skills of conveying and defending our arguments orally...
...themselves and for the sake of their own education, one might claim. If they want to submit their essays for prizes or hand out copies for their friends and associates to read, they ought to be encouraged to do so. But to make academic writing into a shared classroom experience--to create a far-flung "community of readers"--would be to compromise the process and waste time...
Moreover, bringing writing into the classroom in this manner might fundamentally alter the learning environment over time. Students would come to consider each paper not as a requirement for the course but as a chance to make a worthwhile contribution to their own education and to the education of others...
...teacher is a pale, bloodless deacon, drained by unrequited longings, preposterous, out of things. She is the withered maiden; he is Ichabod Crane, humiliated to death by the village nitwit. The only way he gains respect is to become Glenn Ford in Blackboard Jungle and beat up the classroom hoods. There are exceptions like Mr. Holland's Opus. But the rule is Arnold in Kindergarten...
...derision is difficult to understand. Education is a setup for ridicule. Old people stuck in place deliver old information to new people about to move up and out. The adamant vs. the supple. The strait-laced vs. the unlaced, over whom they exert a flimsy and temporary authority. Every classroom is an implicit smirk. Write what you feel; I feel that I am going to sit here and accept whatever that tired old bird dishes out, and then I'm going out on the green to toss a Frisbee, flirt, chomp on an Arch Deluxe, live. I'm going...