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Teaching Inattentive Students
While lecturing, I learned not to check on the attentiveness of every student -- that would be counterproductive. To earn the students' concentration, I learned to "talk to the walls," that is, to speak in a low voice, pretending to be speaking to myself, which gave the impression that I was totally immersed in my ideas. The idea that I liked best was the idea that the students understood and remembered most.
"Teaching in Beirut," in "An Invitation to Laughter: A Lebanese Anthropologist in the Arab World," by Fuad Khuri, 2007
June 25, 2007 10:57 PM Caught Our Eye
