Primitive shouldn’t be a naughty word Today in my International Human Rights class, my friend used the word “primitive” …And then all hell broke lose. Why the oversensitivity? The anthological definition of the word “primitive” is simply “Of or relating to a nonindustrial, often tribal culture, especially one that is characterized by a low level…
Day: April 20, 2005
Thousands of Pages for Three Sentences
Sounds exciting… Is it just me or has the whole text book “requirement”/actual requirement ratio gotten ridiculous lately? Not sure of what I mean? I’m talking about when a professor lists five 300-page books as a requirement, but doesn’t use more than a few sentences of each for tests, and has you read a separate…