CarrollBlog 2.26

Everyone has their "that was the most embarrassing moment of my life" story. Here's a great one I heard recently:

A woman was teaching a literature course at an American university. It was a tough assignment because the majority of her students were planning on careers in math and science. The only reason why the majority of them had signed up for her course was to fulfill an academic requirement. She said they were very smart kids who simply weren't interested in reading or talking about...