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Politics : The Obama - Clinton Disaster -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: GROUND ZERO™ who wrote (2556)	12/3/2008 11:44:50 AM
From: clutterer	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 103300

got your tix to the messianic ordination yet??? he's on friggin tv more than paulson and berjackme lately....i heard he's going to walk across the potomac and then turn the reflecting pool into wine......should be a heckuva show....

To: GROUND ZERO™ who wrote (2556)	12/3/2008 3:22:31 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 103300

Great story! One of my strongest memories is from High School: a chemistry instructor I had. One the very first day of class (none of us had ever even opened a chemistry book yet... :-), at the first minute, the teacher said we were having a 'pop quiz'. A loud groan came from the entire class, and voices were heard saying things like "but we just got here!" and, "we haven't even read the first chapter yet!" The teacher said "That doesn't matter" and passed out a multiple choice test. All questions listed FOUR possible answers: A, B. C, and D. We all did our best, and then passed the answers in. She then proceeded to grade them quickly (as they were passed in to her) and next she returned them to us, told us we had all failed, and next went orally through each and every question on her test. Although several of the questions played out like this, I still remember the FIRST time she discussed one of the questions and went through each and every listed answer (A, B, C. D....) and explained why we had ALL got the answer wrong --- REGARDLESS of whether any of us had picked A, B, C, or D... that they were ALL incorrect. I remember speaking up, with no little hint of anger: "What do you MEAN 'all' the answers are wrong? How can you score it as an 'incorrect answer' if ALL of the possible answers are themselves wrong? What were we supposed to do?" She said something then that has long stuck with me.... She told us that MOST of the time in life we would not have enough information in front of us to accurately answer a question... and that just because some possible answers were listed on a piece of paper that did NOT mean that they were the only possible answers!" She told the class that when we were presented with some question --- where all of the multiple choice answers listed were incorrect answers --- that we should write in to the side of the question WHY those answers were not the right ones... or write in what the correct answer should be (if we knew it), and give our reasons. I am often thought that was one of the best lessons I ever received.... Two years later I remember taking an end-of-term final exam in Biology... and seeing a question on the State standardized exam that I was sure listed only incorrect possible answers. So, I marked each choice out, indicated that the choices were all wrong... and then wrote in the correct answer to the side. (My teacher called me aside after the exam and said she would have to 'pass the exam upstairs' to superiors... Later it came back with my "A"... and a little mark out to the side saying I was "right about the hummingbird"... I have long treasured that recollection. :-)