Wednesday, November 16, 2005

|Bad Education.|

Keeping with the past precedent of unintentional cruelty, one of my professors today talked to us about our first papers. He started the class like so:

"Uhm, in America, is it common to have assignments where you discuss a topic for multiple pages?"

Mind you, at this point, none of us knew that he was going to discuss our papers. Someone asked, "You mean, 'papers'?"

Evidently our papers were so horrendous to him, as a collective, that he was forced into wondering if we'd ever written papers before -- if it was an academic practice in the states. I do not know what was supposed to be on tap for today (I misplaced my syllabus long ago), but the remainder of class was spent with his teaching us the proper form for composing a French paper, a form which looks unsurprisingly similar to the structure I was taught in middle school. Some of the students became angry. Some just highly frustrated. I've decided to chalk it up to the French experience and rather than remaining comfortably in the "my way or the highway" idea that non-Americans often ally to the American ethos, to see this as yet another avenue to la vie française. Besides, I only have school for five more weeks.

Our next assignment: correct (read: rewrite) our old assignment.


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