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Political Science at a Teaching College

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 May 2020

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Just teach and teach and teach until your mind grows dull and your creativity vanishes and you become an automaton saying the same dull things over and over to endless waves of innocent students…The reason you teach and you teach and you teach is that this is a very clever way of running a college on the cheap while giving a false appearance of genuine education.

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Research Article
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News for Teachers of Political Science , Volume 33 , Spring 1982 , pp. 1 - 8
Copyright
Copyright © American Political Science Association 1982

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References

1 Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (New York: Bantam Books, 1974), p. 140. I should like to. note, lest the readers of this article assume from the quote at the beginning that I am some sort of disgruntled, aging leftist, such is not the case. I am a middle-age tenured faculty member. While I don't agree with quite a bit in Mr. Pirsig's fascinating book. I think he very accurately described the problems of "teaching institutions."