Hilarious. My sister sent this before I knew the story.
Does anybody teach their students to write in Twitter? I scoffed at the headline, but when the author mentioned the difficulty of writing good aphorisms, I felt my needle move a little. I might incorporate something of the sort the next time I teach Nietzsche or Confucius.
As noted in the comments by Me-UptheDownStaircase, Thursday night’s Daily Show had a strong education focus, featuring an interview with education researcher Diane Ravitch, and featuring a couple of pieces on teachers.
Here’s the link to the whole episode, if you’d like to watch it in it’s entirety.
Alternatively, you could just watch the key clips by clicking here, here and/or here.
It doesn’t solve anything for anybody, but a laugh is always good.
My sister sent me a link to this blog, and it made me snort.
She knows funny.
The Harold Lounge 