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azurelunatic) wrote2002-10-03 10:38 am
azurelunatic) wrote2002-10-03 10:38 am
Ashford's getting it.
There's such a thing as teaching a class well, and then there's just giving out bullshit excuses.
Ashford is quickly about to learn that certain excuses aren't going to cut it, given this class.
One of Ashford's common sayings, towards the beginning of class, was that there were no bad topics, only bad presentations. He has since been ruling out topics (other than your general inappropriate-for-school ones) as not of interest to the class.
Namely: Bob asked if he could do his demonstration speech on how to put together a skateboard. I would have seen the logic in Ashford's declining this on the grounds that Bob's explanatory speech was on the parts of the skateboard, and did cover how to put one together, and that the topic had already been covered in the class. That's what I would have done, if I were going to decline the topic. However.
Ashford told Bob that he could not do his demonstration speech on how to put a skateboard together as the professionals do it, because Joan has no need to know.
Ashford's getting it.
How the hell does Ashford get off on presuming to say that I have no need to know how to put a skateboard together? Because I am female? Because I do not look athletic? Because I am not interested in skateboarding? How does he know I am not interested in skateboarding? And even if I were not interested in skateboarding whatsoever, it is not the job of the speaker to pick a topic that absolutely everyone in the class is going to be interested in. It is the job of the speaker to take whatever topic that they have, and MAKE it interesting enough for the entire class to pay attention to with their presentation. For that matter, how dare Ashford assume that I, or the rest of the class, have a need to know regarding his classic demonstration speech, the baking of cookies? I happen to have worked, professionally, in a bakery. I have no need to know about how the professionals make cookies, because I already know. I happen to have skateboarding on my list of sports that I will begin taking up, or re-begin, when I have the time and energy, and, if Ashford was paying any attention to the class during Bob's last speech on skateboarding, he would have seen that I was enthralled, and that was not, honestly, because of the suberb technical quality of Bob's presentation, but because he made something that I've had a slight interest in ever since reading Snow Crash sound very interesting indeed!
Ashford cancelled class for today. He gets the sharp end of my tongue tomorrow before class gets into session, really.
I seem to be the spokescharacter for the class, when there are rumblings of discontent.
Ashford is quickly about to learn that certain excuses aren't going to cut it, given this class.
One of Ashford's common sayings, towards the beginning of class, was that there were no bad topics, only bad presentations. He has since been ruling out topics (other than your general inappropriate-for-school ones) as not of interest to the class.
Namely: Bob asked if he could do his demonstration speech on how to put together a skateboard. I would have seen the logic in Ashford's declining this on the grounds that Bob's explanatory speech was on the parts of the skateboard, and did cover how to put one together, and that the topic had already been covered in the class. That's what I would have done, if I were going to decline the topic. However.
Ashford told Bob that he could not do his demonstration speech on how to put a skateboard together as the professionals do it, because Joan has no need to know.
Ashford's getting it.
How the hell does Ashford get off on presuming to say that I have no need to know how to put a skateboard together? Because I am female? Because I do not look athletic? Because I am not interested in skateboarding? How does he know I am not interested in skateboarding? And even if I were not interested in skateboarding whatsoever, it is not the job of the speaker to pick a topic that absolutely everyone in the class is going to be interested in. It is the job of the speaker to take whatever topic that they have, and MAKE it interesting enough for the entire class to pay attention to with their presentation. For that matter, how dare Ashford assume that I, or the rest of the class, have a need to know regarding his classic demonstration speech, the baking of cookies? I happen to have worked, professionally, in a bakery. I have no need to know about how the professionals make cookies, because I already know. I happen to have skateboarding on my list of sports that I will begin taking up, or re-begin, when I have the time and energy, and, if Ashford was paying any attention to the class during Bob's last speech on skateboarding, he would have seen that I was enthralled, and that was not, honestly, because of the suberb technical quality of Bob's presentation, but because he made something that I've had a slight interest in ever since reading Snow Crash sound very interesting indeed!
Ashford cancelled class for today. He gets the sharp end of my tongue tomorrow before class gets into session, really.
I seem to be the spokescharacter for the class, when there are rumblings of discontent.
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(*dissolves into quiet giggles*)
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It rather takes the wind out of one's sails when one finds that the teacher has been misquoted.
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