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February 27, 2008

My Favorite Liar - I love this. Apparently also applied by Neil Postman (Teaching as a Subversive Activity). [thx kottke]

"...'let me explain how I teach. Between today until the class right before finals, it is my intention to work into each of my lectures ... one lie. Your job, as students, among other things, is to try and catch me in the Lie of the Day.' And thus began our ten-week course."

 

Do we need a "Teaching" category? 

posted by mrflip in Art at 02:23PM CST on Feb 27 [trackback] (2 comments total)

More on Lying and Education

Consider how we expect a child to act when he opens a gift he doesn’t like. We instruct him to swallow all his honest reactions and put on a polite smile. Talwar runs an experiment where children play games to win a present, but when they finally receive the present, it’s a lousy bar of soap. After giving the kids a moment to overcome the shock, a researcher asks them how they like it. About a quarter of preschoolers can lie that they like the gift—by elementary school, about half. Telling this lie makes them extremely uncomfortable, especially when pressed to offer a few reasons why they like the bar of soap.

 

posted by mrflip at 10:30AM CST on March 02

Apparently, Quakers can get fired for not lying 

posted by Valatan at 12:04PM CST on March 02

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