Re: A Glass-ic moment

No pressure, John :). That's really something.

It's funny, though....my fourteen year old daughter spent a week with me
once while I was in grad coursework. I had three courses, one right
after the other, all on the same day, so that I was in class from 1:15
PM to 9:30 PM. I was taking literary theory, philosophy of nature, and
caribbean lit. She asked me a question privately in Lit Theory, asked
the teacher a couple questions in Phl. of Nature, and took over the
class discussion in Carib Lit. She never got bored. At the end, I was
begging her to shut up awhile. The teacher, though, kept egging her on
:).

She loved college and was bored with HS. She's nowhere near being
actually able to enroll, but it really makes me wonder about HS teaching
methods.

Jim

Omlor@aol.com wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> At the beginning of classes today, I learned that I had the daughter
> of a colleague enrolled in both of my courses. Her father teaches in
> our Philosophy department. The girl is beginning her first full year
> of college today. She is thirteen years old.
>
> She was the only person in either of my Lit. sections who had already
> read both /Crime and Punishment/ and /Love in the Time of Cholera/.
>
> Before class, I asked her if all this was a bit strange for her. Very
> softly, she said no, that she had sat in on a course last year (when
> she was 12). I asked her which course and she answered, "Advanced
> Japanese."
>
> It should be an interesting semester.
>
> All the best,
>
> --John (tired but happy after day 1)

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