Tag: education

I wonder what my college professor would think of me now?

The next post after this one is going to be a very early short story of mine that I just uncovered. Called “Reunion,” it was published in the Spring, 1979, issue (Volume 2, Number 2) of Shapes and Names, the literary magazine published by the department of English of Harding College (now Harding University) in …

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I’ll be teaching a speculative fiction writing workshop this fall…

…through the University of Regina’s Centre for Continuing Education, and you can sign up for it now! Here’s how it’s described: Speculative Fiction Workshop Aurora Award-winning science fiction and fantasy author Edward Willett leads a six-week workshop for writers of science fiction, fantasy and horror. Students bring new or revised work to each session and …

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Smarter than the average Harvard senior!

I got 51 right out of 60 on this quiz about American history, government and politics, for an 85 percent average, and most of the questions I missed I don’t feel too badly about, although there were a couple where, when I read the correct answers, I felt extremely “Duh!” The quiz has been in …

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Student evaluations of Socrates

Very funny. A taste: Socrates is a real drag, I don’t know how in hell he ever got tenure. He makes students feel bad by criticizing them all the time. He pretends like he’s teaching them, but he’s really ramming his ideas down student’s throtes. He’s always taking over the conversation and hardly lets anyone …

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Learning

It’s September, and that can only mean one thing: the Roughriders are losing. Oh, all right, TWO things: the Roughriders are losing, and kids are back in school. School, in theory, is where we learn what we need to know to be a useful member of society. How these things are taught has changed drastically …

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The science of studying (as opposed to studying science)

  Ah, spring. Even though I haven’t been in school for fift–um, several–years, it used to be in spring that this young man’s fancy turned to thoughts of…final exams. Final. Exams. The phrase has a kind of closing-of-the-crypt-doors solemnity, doesn’t it? But, we were told, final exams need not be a time of panic, of …

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