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Opmerker's avatar

"Dear santa, all I want for Christmas this year is the chance to see the looks on the faces of those kids when they walk into Mr sobani's classroom after their Barbarian teacher has had his way with their work...... pretty PLEEZE!"

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Yosef Hirsh's avatar

How much of this is for educational purposes 😉

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Toni George's avatar

What directions will you give the students if any? How much time/ how many day(s) to recover and recreate? Can’t wait to hear how it goes.

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Phisto Sobanii's avatar

Generally speaking I give enough to get them started and then go from there. I like a question filled improvisational classroom. They're getting better at taking intuitive leaps.

Monday will be planning to create stuff. Tuesday is making stuff. Then either Wednesday or Thursday for the actual exam (depending on their schedule).

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Toni George's avatar

Can’t wait to hear how it goes

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Kevin Maher's avatar

Ditto!

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Rather Curmudgeonly's avatar

"She was apparently fired that day and escorted off the premises."

Clearly not a beneficiary of union protection.

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Phisto Sobanii's avatar

Frankly I don’t think the union would’ve helped.

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Rather Curmudgeonly's avatar

Unions generally do protect incompetent workers as sad as that is.

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Phisto Sobanii's avatar

Oh indeed.

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Kevin Maher's avatar

Nobody wants to see someone jobless, but this lady must have been completely out of her depth, or inept. I only hope she was new to the job and had not been impacting on the lives of students for any length of time. It’s because of characters like this that students ‘fall through the cracks’, and end up with a substandard education. Nothing boils my blood more than the mere thought of it.

Great little article, Mister Phisto. Looking forward to reading the outcome of your little experiment/exam. I have a feeling that the students will have more than a fair degree of knowledge around that particular time period stored in their noggin for life! Brilliant!

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1.032547698's avatar

Are you going to include the story of Giovanni Giustiniani in the Constantinople defense?

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Vance Gatlin's avatar

I wish my teachers were this fun.

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Dave's avatar

Once again, excellent. I become more and more convinced that your approach to teaching is exactly what is missing from a system that in general just sits people down and talks at them rather than seeking to get them thinking for themselves. The experience you're suggesting here has the power to be actually transportative, to allow them to experience a perspective rather than just hear about it. And at the very least it'll be such a wild and unexpected thing, whatever they take from it is likely to remain with them for a long time. Great work, and best of luck with it.

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Lia's avatar

I would not have pegged you as a conceptual artist at heart! Looking forward to hearing about the results of the experiment.

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Kenneth R. Mintz's avatar

Can I help? I have a recipe for Greek Fire I’d like to try out.😁

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Urs Broderick Furrer's avatar

Are you actually allowed to teach lessons about dead white men? Fascinating! 🤣

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Phisto Sobanii's avatar

Amazing times we live in.

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Urs Broderick Furrer's avatar

It seem that suddenly, everything has changed!

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Sandy Shaller's avatar

Genghis Khan was a historical barbarian. Hitler had a couple of centuries to learn that slaughtering people was wrong. However, maniacs like Hitler, and some modern ones that I won't mention, aren't good learners. They are lost in their own narcissistic delusions.

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Andy Dean's avatar

Meanwhile we owe modern diplomacy to Genghis Khan, after all it was him who introduced immunity for ambassadors and diplomats, and even banned killing the messengers bringing ill tidings.

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Emil Ottoman's avatar

He also didn't finish consolidating the nomads of the steppe until he was 41, didn't leave it until he was 42, spent 13 years a slave, and was considered to be powerful shaman. He was a propagandist and he held the first religious conference between Christians, Muslims, and Buddhists (it didn't matter anyway as long as they bent the knee to Tengru (Tengru? Spotty here)

I got to the point here where it says “he did that shit” realized the author didn't know enough about Genghis Khan, or the Mongols, and quit reading.

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Phisto Sobanii's avatar

The article isn't about Genghis Khan. It's about teaching.

Would you like to try again?

Or are you just here to be stupid?

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Phisto Sobanii's avatar

I only ban for being stupid or boring.

Enjoy guessing which you were!

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Phisto Sobanii's avatar

Only for being stupid or boring.

Bye!

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