Re: Off topic: Educational Methods

[Bill Troop billtroop@xxxxxxxx]

>  Caning obviously won't work,

Well, then how about a special laser? But seriously,
> the role-playing idea ... shy mice (all-women's
college)
Some sort of performance used to help. Imagine yourself as a little shy
mouse at Wellesley, in 1927. It's the first day of your introductory
English Literature course. In walks your professor, Helen Lockwood,
impeccably tailored in tweeds. Her first words are:

"I suppose a few of you still believe in God?"

Pandemonium breaks loose.
In the 1980s, Peter von Blankenhagen's lecture on the Berberini Faun deeply
shocked his students, with its references to Mick Jagger.
But what on earth, today, could possibly shock anyone?