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are life/death assignments. How do we get students to do
Isn't this the everyday plight of the teacher? None of our assignments
them? If I think there is a valuable lesson in having the students go tothe library and find/read the hard copy of something, it
doesn't matter whether this physics list agrees or the students agree. Wecould never come up with a list of activities that we as
professors and they as students would agree is the "absolutely requiredlist of activities" for the subject at hand. Each teacher
has the freedom to come up with her own list. After having done that, andfinding students don't like it, must we discard the
assignments that yield the lowest compliance? If so, don't we eventuallydiscard all assignments?