~~History Exam Question

[queencharlotte]

"History lecturers who write and speak on their subject in the present tense are ?"

complete and diuscuss.

[boxtops]

...behind the times?

[DTCwordfan]

lol boxtops

[DTCwordfan]

Lecturer: History is a very interesting subject. It tells you about what
had happened in the past.

Student: Please teacher, I don't think I want to study history.

Lecturer: Why?

Student: There is no future in it.

[dotty.]

engaging with their subject?

[mike11111]

The use of the "vivid present" to describe the past was a well-known literary device of Greek and Latin authors. It is hardly unknown in modern parlance:
"OK, so I'm in this bar, right, and this guy comes up to me..."

[DTCwordfan]

Here's one for the EDL loons

A History Lecturer asks a class full of kids--what was Churchill famous for?

A kid at the back shouts out "he was the last white man to be called Winston"

[queencharlotte]

Some thought provoking answers here. One of them reminds me of a music teacher pal of mine tryiing in vain to enthuse his class of 14 year olds and when he saw one of them actually asleep he banged on his desk and shouted "YOU! Who wrote Handel`s Messiah?" Quick as a flash the now alert youth responded "It wasn`t ME. I`m going to tell my Dad on you. You`re always accusing me of things I aint done".

[mike11111]

That reminds me of my early days in teaching when I taught History at a prestigious boys' prep school. The class were bright and intelligent children. When I wrote the exam paper on early English history, being in a frivolous mood at the time, the last question I set was, "Who ordered the building of Hadrian's Wall?" Only one boy got it right.

[DTCwordfan]

reminds me not so much of the History paper but the philosophy exam at Oxford.

"Discuss the Philosophy of being brave."

One examinee wrote but just two words on his paper.

"This is."

[mike11111]

The other Oxford philosophy question was:
Q.7. Is question 7 a valid question?
A. of course, provided that this is a valid answer.

I think some of these tales are apocryphal.

[DTCwordfan]

so do I like the one about the Oxford interview where the prospective, having sat there for five mins on a dark Dec late afternoon as the Prof read his Times, and on being asked "Prove you are brilliant," whipped in his lighter out and set fire to the newspaper.

Fun though......

[pastafreak]

....living in the past...?