Geez folks, what BS! Did some of you just migrate from behind the iron
curtain where anything other than classical music was forbidden?
If you think you can change students by ramming anything down from a bully
pulpit as a teacher, then I understand what *I* am up against in keeping
funding for science.
If you want students to listen because you are the authoritarian figure,
good luck trying. If you instill the distrust that you project in your
comments, you can expect the worst.
I have watched faculty who play music before their classes (we offer that
option). Those who insist on indoctrinating the students with *their*
music rarely accomplish anything else. *PICK YOUR BATTLES* as they say in
raising your own children. If students are listening to a different
wavelength from you, don't expect them to resonate with you. Can you meet
them halfway? As long as you think they are stupid, and only they can
learn from you and not you from them, neither of you will learn very much.
If I were your student, I would be quick to point out that you have learned
only a few hundred tunes and precious few words in your music. That seems
pretty lazy to me, compared to the hundreds of tunes (with words) that the
youth sift through while you sit complacently listening to the same few,
over and over and over. Now look who's not *learning*!!! But, shucks, all
*they* need is the 3 R's!
Karl
Dr. Karl I. Trappe Desk Phone: (512) 471-4152
Physics Dept, Mail Stop C-1600 Demo Office: (512) 471-5411
The University of Texas at Austin Home Phone: (512) 264-1616
Austin, Texas 78712-1081