Comments for The Gates of Academe http://gatesofacademe.wordpress.com A Student Returns to College After Thirty Years Mon, 25 Oct 2010 23:00:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ Comment on Text Messaging & Classroom Protocol by Dr. Stan http://gatesofacademe.wordpress.com/2008/04/02/text-messaging-classroom-protocol/#comment-286 Mon, 25 Oct 2010 23:00:54 +0000 http://gatesofacademe.wordpress.com/?p=225#comment-286 Way to go. Professors who get into a war with their students over this stuff risk alienating their students, or (at best) exascerbating a power differential that gets in the way of estyablishing an atmosphere of mutual respect and learning (at least at the college level). and that’s just sad. Ignoring it is a perfectly valid, adult approach (unless it is disruptive or there is cheating going on, which is never to be tolerated, of course). Getting out in front of your students (outsmarting them, or joining them, as it were) is even better.

]]> Comment on Text Messaging & Classroom Protocol by Joe McCorkell http://gatesofacademe.wordpress.com/2008/04/02/text-messaging-classroom-protocol/#comment-283 Fri, 14 May 2010 18:05:28 +0000 http://gatesofacademe.wordpress.com/?p=225#comment-283 Education is a companion which no misfortune can depress, no crime can destroy, no enemy can alienate,no despotism can enslave. At home, a friend, abroad, an introduction, in solitude a solace and in society an ornament.It chastens vice, it guides virtue, it gives at once grace and government to genius. Without it, what is man? A splendid slave, a reasoning savage – Joseph Addison

Incorrect your education leaves a lot to be desired if you are going to use quotes in your website please ensure they are correctly attributed.

The above quote comes from a court case in Galway Ireland in 1816, almost 100 years after Addison’s death,don’t relay on the internet for information it is invariably incorrect.

]]> Comment on Disrespect in the Classroom by sandrar http://gatesofacademe.wordpress.com/2007/11/08/disrespect-in-the-classroom/#comment-278 Thu, 10 Sep 2009 14:31:24 +0000 http://gatesofacademe.wordpress.com/2007/11/08/disrespect-in-the-classroom/#comment-278 Hi! I was surfing and found your blog post… nice! I love your blog. :) Cheers! Sandra. R.

]]> Comment on Exam Time by Jemma http://gatesofacademe.wordpress.com/2008/04/16/exam-time/#comment-267 Sat, 08 Aug 2009 01:48:42 +0000 http://gatesofacademe.wordpress.com/?p=232#comment-267 Hello.
I’m doing a Level 3 media studies production, and am making a docoumentary on university. I was wondering if I could use this photo as a still as part of it? It is a completely class-related movie, and will not be distributed or copied, and seen only by myself and my teacher, Ms Jen Lloyd.
I am in Year 13 at Queen Margaret College, Wellington, New Zealand. If you could get back to me as soon as possible through the email above, that would be great.
Thank you.
PS this isn’t spam :)

]]> Comment on This Be The Verse by pastelprincess http://gatesofacademe.wordpress.com/2007/02/10/this-be-the-verse/#comment-260 Thu, 23 Apr 2009 13:54:17 +0000 http://gatesofacademe.wordpress.com/2007/02/10/this-be-the-verse/#comment-260 I love this poem. I was just talking to my English prof about it the other day.

]]> Comment on This Be The Verse by doug http://gatesofacademe.wordpress.com/2007/02/10/this-be-the-verse/#comment-254 Mon, 26 Jan 2009 22:50:21 +0000 http://gatesofacademe.wordpress.com/2007/02/10/this-be-the-verse/#comment-254 nomindseye.wordpress.com

]]> Comment on Exam Time by saintis islam http://gatesofacademe.wordpress.com/2008/04/16/exam-time/#comment-252 Sun, 02 Nov 2008 02:00:50 +0000 http://gatesofacademe.wordpress.com/?p=232#comment-252 nice post.

]]> Comment on Saving the World, One Text Message at a Time by Becky http://gatesofacademe.wordpress.com/2008/09/21/saving-the-world-one-text-message-at-a-time/#comment-246 Thu, 25 Sep 2008 00:31:07 +0000 http://gatesofacademe.wordpress.com/?p=348#comment-246 hmmm, I’m going to hold off on supporting that. I don’t know that I want to be available all the time from anywhere in the world :)

]]> Comment on Math Wars…Resumed by Pam http://gatesofacademe.wordpress.com/2008/08/27/math-warsresumed/#comment-236 Wed, 03 Sep 2008 23:02:11 +0000 http://gatesofacademe.wordpress.com/?p=312#comment-236 This post made me smile – both because of your honesty about your anxiety and how the professor felt that he (for some reason) needed to instill fear in his students. I’ve never understood the later, and have experienced my share of the former. If it was easy, if it was going to be a breeze – I’d have to say ‘Why do it?’. So good for you. (And by the way, did you ever get in touch with the DI guy that I said works with us at HML? Let me know if you didn’t). Oh – and good luck!

]]> Comment on Math Wars…Resumed by WINDVEIL http://gatesofacademe.wordpress.com/2008/08/27/math-warsresumed/#comment-235 Sat, 30 Aug 2008 06:59:43 +0000 http://gatesofacademe.wordpress.com/?p=312#comment-235 ” Sounds like the real world “. It’s what’s left of the real world and you’re to be commended for clawing your way back into it through sheer dint of will. This is what used to make or break real people, but today the C of C and countless other colleges offer so much froth, so many stylish way for fools to coast through the curriculum that it’s a wonder that graduates can find their cars after the ceremony.

Once there were focused people who died in harness enriching the real world, but the bulk of today’s grads will simply slump over, face in keyboard staring into a world which wasn’t real and didn’t matter. Math might be the only truth out there.

]]>