RE: [Leica] Too Serious

[Henry Ting <henryting10@yahoo.com>]

Good thing the student got an "A".
A student follower of Aristotle will probably reply
"Why? why" and got a "F".

- --- "B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net> wrote:
> Both of these are essentially variations on the
> urban legend that first
> cropped up in the late 60s - 1970 - around the time
> of student strikes,
> cancelled finals, etc. A philosophy professor at
> Brown, as I recall the
> story, walked into class on the morning of the
> finals and simply wrote,
> "Why?" on the black board. A student wrote "Why
> not?" and got an
> A.....riiiiiight....:-)
> 
> B. D.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On
> Behalf Of Gregory Goh
> Sent: Thursday, April 18, 2002 10:40 PM
> To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> Subject: [Leica] Too Serious
> 
> 
> This story reminds me of the one I heard about the
> professor asking the
> students a question "What is courage?"
> The one who got an "A" was the one who wrote 2 words
> and handed his answer
> in.
> His answer was "This is"
> 
> Greg
> 
> >From: Photo Phreak <leicam4pro@yahoo.com>
> >Subject: [Leica] too serious again
> >Message-ID:
> <20020419014533.12280.qmail@web21301.mail.yahoo.com>
> >References:
> >
> >An eccentric philosophy professor gave a one
> question final
> >exam after a semester dealing with a  broad array
> of
> >topics.
> >
> >The class was already seated and ready to go when
> the
> >professor picked up his chair, plopped it on his
> desk and wrote on
> >the board: "Using everything we have learned this
> semester,
> >prove that this chair does  not exist."
> >
> >Fingers flew, erasers erased, notebooks were filled
> in
> >furious fashion. Some students wrote over 30 pages
> in one hour
> >attempting to refute the existence of the chair.
> One member
> >of the class however, was up and finished in less
> than a
> >minute.
> >
> >Weeks later when the grades were posted, the rest
> of the
> >group wondered how he could have gotten an A when
> he had barely
> >written anything at all. His answer consisted of
> two words:
> >
> >"What chair?"
> 
> 
> 
>
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