From rowland@loyno.edu Sun Feb 28 18:28:46 1999 Received: from mxu2.u.washington.edu (mxu2.u.washington.edu [140.142.32.9]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.9.1+UW98.09/8.9.2+UW99.01) with ESMTP id SAA33012 for ; Sun, 28 Feb 1999 18:28:45 -0800 Received: from nadal.loyno.edu (nadal.loyno.edu [141.164.242.217]) by mxu2.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW99.02/8.9.3+UW99.01) with ESMTP id SAA01194 for ; Sun, 28 Feb 1999 18:28:45 -0800 Received: from 141.164.241.230 ([141.164.241.230]) by nadal.loyno.edu (AIX4.2/UCB 8.7/8.7) with SMTP id UAA122680 for ; Sun, 28 Feb 1999 20:24:33 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <36D9FB2E.7371@loyno.edu> Date: Sun, 28 Feb 1999 20:28:00 -0600 From: rowland Reply-To: rowland@loyno.edu X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01-C-MACOS8 (Macintosh; I; PPC) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: classics@u.washington.edu Subject: Re: "hot" Euripides References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Many, many years ago when I was a junior faculty member at a different university than my current one, the student newspaper did a parody of a senior English department faculty member's "Socratic method": "That book you were supposed to read for today, who wrote it? What is its title? What's its main theme?...." The whole point of the parody being that the students believed (quite rightly I think) that the teacher hadn't the foggiest idea about the day's assignment. Students of another senior colleague would periodically during the semester ask the same question and keep track of the different answers he would make up. For me, very early in my career, these were salutary lessons: undergrads, while not as learned as their mentors, aren't dumb either. Bob Rowland .