-via the IPA (Institute of Public Affairs):
A sensational new book, born out of classroom reality, is set to rock education practice to its very foundations by telling students how to get ‘As’ by exploiting their teachers’ biases.
Rather than complain, this Machiavellian study guide, The Little Black School Book, shows students how to exploit teacher bias and shortfalls in teacher quality.
In English and humanities subjects, where assessment is subjective, students can get ‘As’ for their essays by mimicking the politically correct bias of their teachers, while with erroneous teachers, to get ‘As’, students need to write the wrong answers, explains Dr Lopez in his new book.
The Little Black School Book: The Secret to Getting Straight ‘As’ at School and University
Author: Mark Lopez. Published by Connor Court and available for sale at the launch.
Book Launch with Andrew Bolt, Mark Lopez and Kevin Donnelly:
14th October, 2008
06:30pm – 7:30pm
Location: Imperial Hotel, 2-8 Bourke Street (Corner Spring Street), Melbourne
More details here.
October 2, 2008, 12:43 pm at 12:43 pm
This book is long past overdue.
I think I’ll attend this one. It’d be worth hearing the speakers, without a doubt.
October 2, 2008, 2:33 pm at 2:33 pm
It sounds similar to what I tell the older kids I tutor, Ash. “Learn the game, play the game, game the game.”
Not possible for me to be in Melbourne this month, but I’ll be buying a copy as soon as it’s available.
October 2, 2008, 3:18 pm at 3:18 pm
“Learn the game, play the game, game the game.”
I learned the game, but I refused to play it or game it, because playing it would have required me to subject my will to that of a bunch of leftard professors, and I have ethical qualms with gaming anything. It cost me a doctoral degree, but I’d rather keep my pride and honor, thanks.
October 2, 2008, 3:25 pm at 3:25 pm
Oh, once, just for shits and giggles, I wrote a piece for chamber orchestra that was a joke. It was full of weird sounding nonsense and took all of an afternoon to conceive, write, and orchestrate. It was a throw-away in every sense of the word.
I did this only because the entire composition faculty would be listening to it, and I wanted to see how they’d react. IOW, if they liked it, I’d expose them for the talentless hacks they were. Probably needless to say, they all liked it, most of them liked it a lot, and one even said it was the best thing she thought I’d ever written.
Fucking morons.
I got a good laugh out of it though.
October 2, 2008, 4:20 pm at 4:20 pm
It just occurred to me that that’s the week I’m going to be on your side of the country Spot, so I may have to send along a co-conspirator.
Hey Nilk? You busy? LOL