Sunday, September 27, 2009
While she nodded, nearly napping
Many first-time teachers have been known to develop a deeply emotional investment in the progress of their students. I, however, have tried to keep the experience in perspective, unable to ignore the copious amounts of apathy displayed by the university students among whom I walked just a few months ago. This attitude came to the rescue just this morning, when, after an hour-long, line-by-line parsing of Edgar Allen Poe's "The Raven," one student raised her hand and asked, "What does-" she looked down tentatively, "'raven' mean?" Quoth I, "Nevermind."
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A lesser man might have been driven to thoughts of committing mayhem, or worse, which in this case would indeed be murder most fowl.
ReplyDeleteIs this going to be on the test?
ReplyDeleteI'm guessing that Changsha did not have a big Poe bicentennial celebration this year. They must have been too busy celebrating the Lincoln bicentennial.
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