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I’m constantly amused by what apparently passes for schooling (compulsory & higher education) in the American system. Presentations seem to be a large part of it.

During my High School years (pre Wikipedia, nascent internet) we had to turn in 4,000< word essays with accurate bibliography, original work, introduction, argument, counter-argument, explanations why the counter-arguments were not valid, and so forth, and conclusions. Usually we didn’t get a choice of topic. There would be no presentation but one copy would go to the teacher for marking and other copies would go to other students for evaluation (meaning that on average the day after handing in we’d have about five 4,000+ word essays to review and comment in writing upon). Those six copies we’d have to hand in would need to be written by hand in leggibile cursive.

That was my life up until June 1999.

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