A New Pedagogy?

alan tansman
Sep 7, 2018 · 1 min read

-i am the teacher — -you are the student

— you shall show up for class and while there: —

-you should have no tech device in front of you

— this course has no redeeming social value — (it will solve none of the world’s very pressing problems)

— the only problem this course will solve is your ignorance of the subject matter

— this course is about learning: not about — -feeling , self-expression or emoting

— great books (not ‘texts’ ) are at the center of our work in this class — it is by reading them that we learn.

— do not come to class without the book

— in this class: ‘race, class, and gender’ are not the holy trinity (though in some other classes it might be just that)

— ‘digital humanities ‘ is an oxymoron (at best)

alan tansman

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Teacher of literature