Mark Edmundson Rducation Review
An author named, Mark Edmundson is also a professor of Freud course
-He teaches 50 undergraduate students.
-It is the day of evaluation
-every student was really excited to do the evaluation and really put effort and thoughts in to it.
-The professor thinks that the results are going to be the same. for example, he is interesting, relaxed
-the professor did not like the form itself
-However, he one said "Edmundson has done a fantastic job of presenting this difficult, important and controversial material in an enjoyable and approachable way." (1)
-He does like it when students wrote "enjoyed"
-The jokes and off-the-wall questions were meant to be lead to bigger things and topics
-he wants some of the students to say that they have been changed by the course
"I want them to measure themselves against what they have read." (2)
-"It's said that some time ago a Columbia University instructor used to issue a harsh two part question. One:What book did you most dislike in the course? Two: What intellectual or characterological flaws in you does that dislike point to? the hand that framed that question was surly heavy. BUt at least it complex one to see intellectual work as a confrontation between two people, student and author, where the stakes matter. These Columbia students were being asked to relate the quality of an encounter, not rate that action as though it had unfolded on the big screen. (2)
-the reason why the students did that is because of culture. of the university
-BECAUSE THATS WHAT WORKS (2)
-The professor teaches at the university of Virginia
-"To me, liberal- arts education is as ineffective as it is now chiefy because they are a lot of stange theories in the air. (2)
-Rather, it is that university culture, like American culture writ large, is, to put in crudely, ever more devoted to consumption and entertainment, to the using and using up of goods and images.
-He teaches 50 undergraduate students.
-It is the day of evaluation
-every student was really excited to do the evaluation and really put effort and thoughts in to it.
-The professor thinks that the results are going to be the same. for example, he is interesting, relaxed
-the professor did not like the form itself
-However, he one said "Edmundson has done a fantastic job of presenting this difficult, important and controversial material in an enjoyable and approachable way." (1)
-He does like it when students wrote "enjoyed"
-The jokes and off-the-wall questions were meant to be lead to bigger things and topics
-he wants some of the students to say that they have been changed by the course
"I want them to measure themselves against what they have read." (2)
-"It's said that some time ago a Columbia University instructor used to issue a harsh two part question. One:What book did you most dislike in the course? Two: What intellectual or characterological flaws in you does that dislike point to? the hand that framed that question was surly heavy. BUt at least it complex one to see intellectual work as a confrontation between two people, student and author, where the stakes matter. These Columbia students were being asked to relate the quality of an encounter, not rate that action as though it had unfolded on the big screen. (2)
-the reason why the students did that is because of culture. of the university
-BECAUSE THATS WHAT WORKS (2)
-The professor teaches at the university of Virginia
-"To me, liberal- arts education is as ineffective as it is now chiefy because they are a lot of stange theories in the air. (2)
-Rather, it is that university culture, like American culture writ large, is, to put in crudely, ever more devoted to consumption and entertainment, to the using and using up of goods and images.