Are all students this stupid?

Susan Kline sckline@attbi.com
Mon, 09 Dec 2002 11:03:15 -0800


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At 08:11 PM 12/6/2002 -0500, you wrote:
>I gave the final exam to my Music Business class yesterday and one of the 
>questions is "In the 1920 what three inventions brought music to the 
>masses?". The answers were supposed to be: the radio, talkies, and the 
>record player. Out of my 6 students only one got it right. But what was 
>most disturbing was that three of them gave as one of their answers, the 
>printing press

As consolation, Wim, there is a certain mad sense in the printing press as 
an answer. The 20's had a huge increase in sheet music of popular songs, 
rags, jazz, and so on. And weren't talkies after 1920? When did the Jazz 
Singer come out?

Just being the Loyal Opposition here ...

Susan
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