Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for April 25, 2014

I can think of quite a few books that fit that description.

OK, we can narrow it down to a rural school, if she is the only problem they have to deal with….

“Most opinions are wrong: any that don’t agree with mine….”

Mrs Himmelscheisser is not impressed,

Non Catholic school. She gets a chance to think about it. Sooner or later, by random chance, she will find intelligence and wisdom,

At college, we were asked to write a critique of a certain work of fiction (which shall remain nameless). I gave my honest opinion that it seemed to be a self indulgent piece of historical romanticism that bore no resemblence to the real lives of people of that class in that particular time. (And so on)..I didn’t get marked as the author was the favourite of the lecturer. [Stupid, short, large woman with long blonde hair prone to wearing floppy hats and shapeless dresses.]

those reviewers of movies, restaurants, and video games must get death threats quite a bit. some reviews are spot on that place/movie/vg is horrible. other times, people would disagree.

Who told Danae that there was no such thing as a wrong opinion? There are billions of wrong opinions.

So, there is no wrong opinion, there is no right opinion. Who gives the right to judge ????

Poor Danae. What she’s missing out on. But why should she be punished? Surely the teacher should be able to handle her problem. Always intrigued me – we are always told it’s our fault if we don’t get it, and yet it’s often the teacher’s rotten teaching that’s at fault.

Not so, Danae. This haz FUBAR stamped all over it

what realy matters, is your opinion!

I like how GoComics has circumvented my pop-up blocker and sticks a stupid video in the middle of he page, blocking the comic.

“…and Punishment Emporium”

I want THAT on my office door!

The long road to learning. For one little girl, experience is rough when avoiding the work.

My cousin married a cop who was proud of the fact that he had only read one book in his life; a collection of sports-figure biographies for a report in HS..I cannot fathom that; I was one of those kids that borrowed their parent’s library card to check stuff out of the adult (as in, “grown-up”, you pervs) section.

The name on the door in the last frame is terrific….

steverino: One of the greater moments of my life was when I found out I was permitted outside the children’s department. The universe opened.

To paraphrase Umberto Eco: there’s no absolute right analysis of a novel, but there are wrong analyses.And that, Danae, was a wrong analysis.

@drjinxReading your contributions is like a flashback to the Sixties (and I’m old enough to have been there!) — the ranting of a drug-addled radical-wannabe, for whom grammar, arithmetic, self-control, and objective reality in general are all an authoritarian conspiracy against “free expression”. Sigh…I thought you guys had all grown up and moved on.

(Apologies for the duplicated post…GoComics hiccuped on me, or something.

I did a similar book report in HS on some boring book we had to read.I don’t remember the book, but everything we were forced to read in HS was garbage.

It wasn’t the opinion, Danae, it was the presentation. Two more tweets with supporting examples might have been enough.

For a college level American Lit class I had to read Upton Sinclair’s ‘The Jungle’. I couldn’t get past the slaughter house scenes and stopped reading. Well we had a (blue book) quiz on it and I wrote my impressions based on what I had read and then explained that the gory descriptions in the meat plant upset me enough that I never finished the book. I turned it in figuring that was an ‘F’ and left the room. I actually got a ‘C’ on it. The prof noted that what I wrote proved I had tried to read it and was accurate as far as I got…

Kim and puddleglum, any good teacher would give an A to those papers….Showing good understanding of the material, explaining points that you want to make in a clear, concise way, even in disagreement, is exactly what teachers should be looking for….A teacher usually loves being challenged on an idea…That’s where the rubber meets the road. First, it shows they’re paying attention, listening and thinking…We really like that…Second, it forces the teacher to think about it differently, and explain it different way. That can only help the teacher get better at presenting the subject….(Learn to teach. Teach to learn.) Third, when a teacher is being questioned, the whole class takes notice…(rooting for the student!) and then you have an attentive audience…..If you play to the other students in the discussion that results, you have a rare opportunity to imprint the understanding of the subject on their brains…. Win Win…

I can sympathize with Danae a bit on this one, had a disagreement with a college professor on our interpretation of the Book of Job from the bible. She gave me an “F”, on attendance, even though I had straight "A"s up to that point on all her tests, papers. Maybe have something to do with why I question “bible thumpers” on their “open mindedness”.

Sorry babe you need to do the book report not do an editorial.

Book reports are useless…..to any person beyond school age but , to a teacher, they show organizational skills. Also whether or not you actually did the work or not…..this seems to be Danae’s weak point….WORK.

wrwallaceii: Sinclair famously complained, “I tried to touch their hearts; instead I hit their stomachs.” It did force the enactment of the Pure Food and Drug Act, which the capitalists have been trying to water down ever since.

I seem to recall in both high school and college, the more I disliked a required reading, the higher the grade I obtained for the required report. .For some reason, teachers and profs always gushed and fawned over what I believed to be the most disagreeable novels.

Lord Jim, Tess of the d’Urbervilles, I Never Promised You a Rose Garden. Rather have to struggle through physics than read those novels.

I can think of a few mandatory reading assignments that made me feel exactly like Danae. Seriously, “The Song Of Bernadaette” took like 10 chapters to get to the first vision. How much boring filler can you pad a book with?