At 3:37 PM -0400 9/9/99, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> If a student can do well in my class by reading the book and "yoking"
>(using another's notes) - or using notes from the net - ... then the
>problem is not that the notes are on the net ... the problem is that what
>is required of the course does not necessitate coming to class. And this
>may not even be a problem! It is only if there is something about the
>classroom experience that is missed and that matters ... but then it should
>show up in the assessment.
>
> david
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>p.s. we should be changing what we teach from year to year anyway ...
>making last year's notes incomplete and merely helpful not sufficient for
>doing well.
Samuel Johnson (1799):
"Lectures were once useful; but now when all can read
and books are so numerous, lectures are unnecessary.
If your attention fails and you miss part of a lecture,
it is lost; you cannot go back as you do upon a book."
Boswell, p 462
* PAUL K. BRANDON [EMAIL PROTECTED] *
* Psychology Department 507-389-6217 *
* "The University formerly known as Mankato State" *
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