Teaching the Kids to Listen Well By Lucas J. Mather, Ph.D. Here’s a funny story: A student asked to make up a quiz he missed due to his absence . He said he lost his keys. I referred him to the syllabus, which says no matter what the reason for the absence , quizzes aren’t… Read more »
A Classroom in Lost Angeles By Lucas J. Mather, Ph.D. From Facebook , Monday March 14, 2014 at 5:41 pm PST “Feel free to twit this lecture out on your Tweeter accounts,” I said, making a combination of bird-chirp noises with gastro-intestinal/sheep bleating sounds. [Which if i may say so myself, I do perfectly after… Read more »
I’d like to wish you a very Joseph Christmas, instead. By Lucas J. Mather, Ph.D. And what do we have against Mary, anyway ? What about women’s rights ? The Christmas holiday has cut the academic year in half for so long nobody remembers it being any other way, at least in our English-speaking world.… Read more »
By Lucas J. Mather, Ph.D. Someone at church today, a young woman in graduate school for philosophy, asked me what I liked most about teaching and what I disliked the most . In a sense, there’s not a damn thing I dislike about it. There never had been. But, there is a lot more I… Read more »
Why I never say “My president” By Lucas J. Mather, Ph.D. I never say, “My Speaker of the House” or “My Supreme Court justice”, either. The Speaker is the Speaker, not of Lucas J. Mather. He’s the (it’s a SHE!) He’s the Speaker of the U.S. *House of Representatives*, not of me. Let’s slow down… Read more »
From Wed. October 24, 2018 at 1:46 pm on Facebook Asked a student recently what changed her mind on the 2nd Amendment (right to carry on campus). She said, what you said in class that one day. Which was?, the professor prompted. Oh, it was when you said–this got me started to think about this… Read more »