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...again and again. The stage that seemed to have so much potential becomes a nuisance when actors turn around and throw unprojected, inaudible lines to about a third of the audience at a time. Every lighting change is accompanied by a melodramatic clang, and the actors have a precarious grasp on their lines...
From there we move to the lesson itself. In a send-up of the theoretical bent of academia, lonesco presents his pupil as stunningly brilliant in philosophy and theory, yet unable to grasp the concept of subtraction. In a hilarious scene, the professor grapples with all kinds of examples--matches, fingers, ears and noses--to demonstrate the idea of "taking away," as the student merrily proclaims that two minus one is in fact two by the principles of logic...
...Students should be able to sit with a small number of pages and see how the whole thing works as a matter of engineering principles," Ptashe says. "You want to grasp the principles because they're not that hard to understand ad once you understand them, they're to easy to forget because they make a coherent whole...
...students can grasp these fundamental principles then they can grasp the astounding intellectual advances that have been made in the field." Ptashne says. "My problem is to make that narrative vivid...
...those areas, there's a competence that can be very easily demonstrated," he says. "It's easy to demonstrate that you have a very good grasp of calculus principles...