On 12/16/10 12:12 PM, HarryK wrote:
On 12/16/10 11:49 AM, Wayne.B wrote:
On Thu, 16 Dec 2010 11:25:29 -0500,
wrote:

The good news is that exams in my classes are over tomorrow.
The bad news is that i'll have too many essay exam papers to read.
The good news is that i'm an easy grader, so long as I can see that
thought and effort went into the essays. Clever counts.

How do you teach clever?



I'm sure Paul can speak for himself on this, but...

A good, solid liberal arts education, a wide, catholic reading list, and
rigorous Socratic methodology in the classroom will improve the
"cleverness" of students who want to learn and learn to think.

I remember to this day a number of my graduate level college classes
where the professors drove hard to sharpen the wits of his students.

but then again, my grad school was Yale.