There are three kinds of teachers: the tough, the nice, and the charitable. The Tough Teacher delights in his status as such and imagines his class to be an intellectual obstacle course, like a Ninja Warrior contest of the mind. Hurrying his students up an impossible ramp of reading, staging reading quizzes like a series […]
I would really like to hear more from your son during class discussions. For years, I have written this in report cards and spoken it at parent-teacher conferences. For years, little has come of it. I explain to parents that over the high school years more and more is gradually required of students. If students
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As rhetoric and arguments tend to come up in the classes that I teach, we invariably spend some time talking about enthymemes. An enthymeme is a specific type of logical argument–a syllogism–in which either a premise or the conclusion is left implied or unspoken. So, for example, the statement, “Josh is a good husband because
