Impressive score.
Yesterday, I got back a quiz in my Values class. My score was a negative ten. I got every question wrong. My favorite answer and probably the reason for a negative score was a response to this question:
What view did [Frederick Douglass] have towards religion in his book, and what does he have to say about it in the appendix?
Douglass believed that even though there was deep faith, God never helped any slaves free themselves.
To be honest, I didn’t read the last few chapters of this. But on the contrary, do I already have the knowledge? Can I just not conjure that knowledge up to write a significant answer to this question?
Aye, there’s the rub. But what is ‘reading?’ Is it the classic definition where our brains see words and process them as a form of communication, or is it taking that communicative medium and interpreting what we process? There’s obviously a difference. If that’s the case, then which ‘reading’ is it when we say, “oh, I read Hamlet?” Have we read Hamlet or have we read Hamlet?
I’m assuming that admitting I didn’t do the homework didn’t exactly help my score.
