"It is very difficult to give a general answer to this question, for teaching, like love, is an intuitive business that cannot properly be articulate in rules and procedures. (That is why one should never go to a âteaching-improvement workshopâ.) One thing to do is to stop complaining about students. ⊠Students tend to respond well to someone they sense wishes them well. Never let students think that your real life is research-work that happens out of the classroom â try to make it the case, so far as possible, that (as in the nineteenth-century) your research and teaching are one and the same. Do not pander too much to the demand for âvisual aidsâ. Do not teach in a darkened classroom and, especially, do not structure your lecture around a set of âbullet pointsâ projected onto a screen. Remember that bullet points are discrete while thought is continuous so that what bullet points represent is, in fact, the death of thought. Address what interests students â sex, death, boredom, technology and the meaning of life."
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In: RalĂłn, L. (2011). âA Conversation with Julian Young,â Figure/Ground. June 19th.
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