"Is reform needed? is it through you? The greater the reform needed, the greater the Personality you need to accomplish it."
-from "To a Pupil"

Wednesday, April 8, 2009

Pop Quiz Poetry

One Student's Story

In a 3000-level English class I was tested over the first lines of the poems we read in class.

I made an A.

Writing "Among the rain" under the title of a poem didn't teach me anything.

I mimicked everything. I learned nothing.

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How frequently do you feel that you are tested over a professor's interpretation instead of your own?