Saturday, October 01, 2005

Out of the mouths of babes... well almost

The other day in class I was trying to elicit words to describe personal characteristics. We had already thought of 'well-informed', and I asked the students to give me the opposite of this.
All the faces looking at me were scrunched up in confusion and straining deep in thought.
Then suddenly one girl offered her answer:
"American!"

(Of course I spent the next ten minutes discussing the definition of 'stereotype'...)

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