Everyone makes stupid mistakes and says stupid stuff don't they? I know they do. I had the esteemed pleasure of reading over 700 tests for my American History classes this semester. I thought it would be interesting to post a few of the statements I have received from my students during my first semester teaching at ASU. While I know that everyone is not a master of American history, I did expect a little more eloquence from future college graduates. This is just a snippet. I have many more of varying degrees of humor and utter ignorance.
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On Columbus:
He was a man who set out to prove that the world was flat and not round and that you could fall off the edge of it if you weren't careful. He took off sailing and eventually made it to this place called the new world. When he got there he drew a map. While he was looking at the map he realized that the world was not flat and that you couldn't fall off of it while you were sailing around in the ocean.
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On Native American gender roles
Some men were dressed as women but others just stayed men.
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Robber Barons:
During the late 1800s there was this guy named Robert Baron. He was really greedy and tried to take all the money for himself. He shut down a bunch of companies. Robert Baron was not a very nice person. I wouldn't like Robert Baron.
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On Rosa Parks:
Rosa Parks was the first woman to ever have a prostate.
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This is but a small slice of the true genius that presented itself during the course of the Fall 2008 semester. Stay tuned for more and better pearls of wisdom.
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