This semester’s book club was pretty much a disaster. We all agreed that Teaching Naked is useless and offensive to our sensibilities as educators. The teaching methodologies offered in that book are supremely unsuited to our students. We don’t cater to spoiled rich babies who demand constant entertainment and are enamored of their costly gadgets. After we expressed our dislike for the book, the discussions kind of came to an end because there wasn’t much else to say.
So for next semester, a very different kind of reading was chosen for the faculty book club. Our book club selections are not made by the faculty. Rather, the books get assigned (based on some mysterious principle) by a single staff member in the Office for Faculty Development. Basically, this staff member decides how to develop the faculty members without seeking any input from said faculty. The book chosen for next semester is Hillary Clinton’s Hard Choices. What say you, gentle readers? Should I join the club next semester?
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My instant answer is “No” because because it will devolve into discussions of Hillary Clinton’s unannounced second presidential run, which is not very interesting because the same people will say the same tired things they’ve been saying for years.
Books written by politicians or public figures after they’ve been in national office generally aren’t very interesting and fairly self serving.
You could read Dreams From My Father, which has less pablum because it was written before the politician won any elections, but I doubt that’s interesting.
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Imagine if we start reading the book at the club and then in the midst of it Hillary announces that she won’t run. That would be a total letdown. 🙂
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No, vote with your feet this year. After you have tenure, you can sign up again and recruit a splinter group to read a book that you want to read.
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Why wait when you can recruit now?
“What’s the password?”
“No rules for radicals.”
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“DAAAAAMN STRAIGHT.” 🙂
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