I taught Freshman English at UMass for several years as a grad student. Eventually I taught an Honors class, which was a real pleasure, almost like an upper-level course. Before that, I did have a few (well, 2) good students in those years.
Never have I seen a more eloquent summation of what was wrong with the other 200 or so students I taught than this picture. The gentleman below isn't from here, it looks like, but he would have fit right into English 112, white hat and all. Who wouldn't want to try to teach this guy how to use words to express critical thinking about, say, Madame Bovary?
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