Me: Why are you guys all late to class today?
Student: Because it's cold.
(????? - and that is the kind of logic that pervades my life right now.)
Student: "That's not like 'an eye for an eye'; that's like 'an eye for a head.'" (what?)
Student: "How long are we going to be doing philosophy in this class?"
Me: "When you registered at the beginning of school, did you happen to notice that Humanities has a philosophy textbook?"
Student: "Well, I guess that's fine, but I didn't know we were going to be reading it."
Yesterday, I got to school and it was 86 degrees in my classroom. The boilers were running non-stop, and the maintenance crew couldn't figure out how to turn them off. I was tempted to have a discussion (since we are studying world religions) about HELL with the students, but instead, I opened all the windows and propped a fan in front of the side door. My armpits have not yet recovered from yesterday, but here I am again this morning. The heaters are rattling ominously. I'm going to start developing my own religion: praying to the boiler gods.
Lines from Student Essays:
"The children are healthy, living children, but ethically, they are not."
"Finally, enough was enough, when his unhappiness came to a great climax, Society, always self-perpetuating, and always adjusting to the Status Quo, dictated to him that he kill himself."
(yes. I, too, often feel that the status quo is encouraging suicide. at least - I feel that way upon reading certain passages from students' papers . . . )
"Bernard is a changed person at the end of the novel, and this is all due to the issue."
"As John learns the ways of this new society, sure, it seems strange that babies are bred in laboratories."
"After John's mother pasts away . . ."
"Someone in the book thought that sex and drugs made them happy; Lenina."
sigh. If I make it through today, I have five mornings in a row on which I do not have to get up at 5:25.
I hope Katie succeeds at her new job because I need all the therapy I can get.
love you guys!!!
happy Thanksgiving!!!
Emily
4 comments:
I'm with Lenina!!
Emily, you are so funny - I hope you have a wonderful, stressfree holiday, tho' how you can bear to go 4 days without interacting with your truly inspired students is beyond me!
Call us! We will call you on Thanksgiving from Vicki's. Love.
What a fun post! I know you could probably strangle them when you read things like this, but it made me laugh out loud, thank you! Sorry we don't get to see you for Thanksgiving but your mommy is right, we will call from my parent's house. Love you and Happy Thanksgiving!
Oh, Sweet Girl, you are earning your halo! At least you still have your sense of humor - and actually, all at my house tomorrow will be needin' that too! We will miss you tomorrow. Love you, Honey
~V~
Oh Emily! You need a hug! We love you!
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