As I was just telling my father, when I came to class today, I found students sitting in the dark in complete silence.
“Why don’t you turn on the lights?” I asked.
“Lazy. . .” they drawled.
This is why I welcome any sign of engagement with or interest in pretty much anything. Even if I saw students with a poster saying, “Stalin kicks ass!”, I’d prefer that to indifference. If people know who Stalin is and have some – any – sort of emotional response to him, there is a chance to engage them in a discussion and change their minds.
It is much sadder when there are no minds to change.
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Your father is very lucky to have such a clever daughter! Even two daughters! 🙂
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🙂 🙂 🙂
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Now I feel compelled to comment with something smart. But I’ve got nothing. 😉
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It’s OK, we know you are a genius already. 🙂
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“Lazy” might very well mean “hungover” 😛
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Oh, this is good news then. Hungover at this age is normal. Passive and having zero energy is not.
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We as a family just had a discussion on western feminists. My daughter started it. Pretty interesting. 🙂
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It’s great to hear about people engaging in such intellectual pastimes. I didn’t expect anything less from my blog’s readers!
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Maybe they hadn’t gotten enough sleep and were hoping to catch a nap before you came in.
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If they were 90, I wouldn’t say a word. But at 20? That’s just bizarre. Even I – at almost twice the age and with 3 hours of sleep – keep hopping and skipping all day long.
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It wasn’t their allocate responsibility. Should someone have nominated light-switching as a necessary part of their student role, they could develop a relationship to the problem.
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Maybe some have night jobs to pay for school.
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