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Have any of you ever seen this great cartoon regarding Publish or Perish? It appeared in an underground publication called The Monocle in the early 1960s:Imagine the Crucifixion. At the base of the cross a multitude has gathered draw undefined except for two heads facing each other.The caption read:"Yes, sure, he was a great teacher, but he never published anything."I suppose one could draw a similar cartoon regarding Socrates.In the 1950s, a Stanford student cartoonist published a book of his work called Little Man on Campus, featuring the malignant Professor Snarf. My favorite cartoon was one of the Professor at his desk grinning evilly and talking to a colleague while his class was going through agony and some about to shoot, knife, or hang themselves. It is something I wanted to do but never made the time for it to give to my most academic students on April Foo;s Day.The caption read: "It's a hundred question multiple choice test, and none of the answers are correct."
Spent a long time teaching a class how to take a test… reading all the ans before marking one, skip tough ones and come back after doing the easy ones, etc. Then told them that if one is confronted with two likely answers pick “C” if it's one of them because (according to the ed-psyc class, or was it psyc of ed…, that I took back in the Dark Ages: 60% of the time “C” would be correct, statistically speaking.Next day gave a 10 question reading quiz on the homework. Mr. Wise-a$$ turns in a paper with "C" marked 10 times, figuring that 60% will yield a passing (barely) mark of a "D"... he was wrong... none of the answers were "C". At this point I explained statistics.... ;D
