Student wisdom
January 14, 2010emily
As a teacher, and maybe especially as a history teacher, you have to understand that students aren’t going to have the same passion for the subject that you have. They’re not going to retain things. They’re not going to fully grasp everything you’re telling them. Heck, they probably won’t be able to tell you your name at the end of the semester. But I say, rather than bemoan these sad facts, we should embrace them! Look for the good in everything and everyone, right? To that end, I give you the sporadic wisdom of last semester’s students:
After the Revolution, some slaves moved to “Moron Communities.” [Maroon Communities]
Jonathan Edwards wrote “Sinners in the Angry Hands of God… or something.”
“Most of the workers in the mill were workers.”
On political parties of the 1790s: “On the one hand, there was the group without a name.”
“Catherine Beecher was the daughter of Lyman Beecher, the sister of Harriet Beecher Stowe, and the brother of Henry Beecher.”
“The slave system did not start out as slavery.”
And, my personal favorite:
The Erie Canal was “one of the greatest technological marbles of the nineteenth century.”
Happy Thursday!
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