Forget History, Fear For The Future
High School | Learning
| January 2, 2016
(I am teaching an English class in a Catholic high school. We’re reading a book set in colonial Sydney right now.)
Student: “Miss, how did they get electricity to the colony?”
Me: “This was before electricity, so they didn’t have any. They mainly lit their houses with oil lamps.”
Student: “Then how did they use microphones?”
Me: “Well, they didn’t have microphones. Don’t you remember learning about the steam engine in History? That was how they ran machines.”
Student: “Oh, I don’t talk in History.”
Me: “You mean listen. You don’t listen.”
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