An Old Man, A Green Burette, and other Satanic Creations

[my music: Finch ~ Project Mayhem]

Who asks questionsa bout hisotry on a literature midterm when it has NOTHING to do with any of the pieces read and discussed in class???

Never before has an exam enraged me as much as this one has!!! How the hell does a man get a job and KEEP it when semester after semester he admittingly desires AND enjoys watching his students fail?? The students whom he is supposed to teach and guide, he would much rather watch suffer and eventually die a painful and bloody academic death. Good Job Professor!

What happened to the days when literature was more than obscure details that contribute nothing to the overall theme and use of literary elements? The days when Pope, Swift, Wordsworth, and Guenthe were brilliant and not boring! The days when Gulliver was fantastic and imaginative! The days when students trusted their teacher and teachers cared about the student's success!

Gone.

Instead, we now have bitter old men who truely embody the immense generation gap that exist between many college students and their professors. This is why younger, more energetic professors and teachers are needed. This man believes that we cannot call ourselves civilized because no one in this class knows French. And then he says that there is no need to learn languages such as Spanish. We should learn French. Because it's civilized. Great way of measuring how much people are civilized.

He also believes that we should not read literature word for word... we should develop "skimming skills"... Why teach a literature class if you are not teaching students to enjoy every word?