Re: Just Curious

Posted by Michaelson from em12-686.utsi.edu on September 28, 1999 at 14:07:47:

In Reply to: Re: Just Curious posted by Anejo Joe on September 28, 1999 at 12:10:52:

: : : : : I just read an interesting quote from the AIA (Archaeological Institute of America) newsletter of Summer 1999. In this newsletter there is a reprint of a speech made by the winner of the AIA Award of Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, Susan Alcock. What does this have to do with us? I quote from her speech..."Now it is true that the kids with backward baseball caps who sit in front of us often start with bad information, derived from a lurid combination of young Indiana Jones and Xena Warrior Princess. Easy though it is to despise such sources, they are what give us our first crack at students, and thus our opportunity to take and teach them better." Unquote. Well, I guess this is the very best sample of a backhanded compliment that I've ever read. YIJC is lurid information, but by gar it pulls the kids into the classroom and gives the universities their tuition monies! Oh yes, we can teach them better too. Interesting. Regards. Michaelson

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: : : : Michaelson, are you a member of the AIA? Do you go to lectures? Just curious.

: : : My daugher is (yes, I open and read your mail D. Jones, he he) and I am a member of the Middle Tennessee Archeological Society. I do attend the MTSC lectures, but have not been able to make the AIA meetings to date. Regards. Michaelson

: : that should have been Middle Cumberland Archeology Society. I can never keep that straight. Regards. Michaelson

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: Gosh! I just put the post out, and you have already responded! At 3:11 in the afternoon! You must not be working any harder than I am.

Actually I'm catching these posts between videotaping classes that run from 7:30 am until 7 at night, and all hours between. Regards. Michaelson

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: : : : : : I just read an interesting quote from the AIA (Archaeological Institute of America) newsletter of Summer 1999. In this newsletter there is a reprint of a speech made by the winner of the AIA Award of Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, Susan Alcock. What does this have to do with us? I quote from her speech..."Now it is true that the kids with backward baseball caps who sit in front of us often start with bad information, derived from a lurid combination of young Indiana Jones and Xena Warrior Princess. Easy though it is to despise such sources, they are what give us our first crack at students, and thus our opportunity to take and teach them better." Unquote. Well, I guess this is the very best sample of a backhanded compliment that I've ever read. YIJC is lurid information, but by gar it pulls the kids into the classroom and gives the universities their tuition monies! Oh yes, we can teach them better too. Interesting. Regards. Michaelson

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: : : : : Michaelson, are you a member of the AIA?  Do you go to lectures?  Just curious.

: : : : My daugher is (yes, I open and read your mail D. Jones, he he) and I am a member of the Middle Tennessee Archeological Society. I do attend the MTSC lectures, but have not been able to make the AIA meetings to date. Regards. Michaelson

: : : that should have been Middle Cumberland Archeology Society. I can never keep that straight. Regards. Michaelson

: : 
: : Gosh!  I just put the post out, and you have already responded!  At 3:11 in the afternoon!  You must not be working any harder than I am.

: Actually I'm catching these posts between videotaping classes that run from 7:30 am until 7 at night, and all hours between. Regards. Michaelson

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