Daniel Carrera wrote:
Grading is the most boring thing in the world. I hate it. I have 200 exam papers to grade by tomorrow morning. Argh! :-(You know, I had an interesting experience last week. Actually I had a wonderful day! I passed my Cisco certification exam for Remote Access in the morning. Then in the afternoon I passed the final exam in that class with a 96% or something. Then to top it off, the instructor called me over and told me that I got full credit for my term paper and an A in the class. The really neat part was *I hadn't submitted a term paper yet!*
I figure he didn't want to grade one any more than I wanted to write one, and since he had always given me A's on my previous term papers, he probably didn't see the point. His parting remark was, "I've got tenure, they can't fire me." ;)
I couldn't swear that it was Socrates, but whoever it was I believe the fear was that people would lose their facility for memory if they could write stuff down. Puts a little different perspective on the people (Luddites?) who complain about kids being allowed to use calculators in math class (once they're past the point of that being the point of the instruction anyway).I'm sure Socrates didn't have to grade papers.
... in fact, I understand that he opposed the invention of writing.
Good luck with your grading. I graded technical drawings as an undergrad many years ago (work study program). Light tables worked nicely for that.
Rod
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