<!doctype html public "-//W3C//DTD W3 HTML//EN"> <html><head><style type="text/css"></style><title>Re: Are all students this stupid?</title></head><body> <div>Be easy on them Willem.  You must remember they are the product of outcome-based ed.</div> <div><br></div> <blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-1">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<br> <br> Now I got to admit during one class session I mentioned that the printing press brought the printed word to the masses. But I know I didn't say in the 1920's?</font></blockquote> <blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-1"><br></font></blockquote> <blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-1">Are the students in Alabama the only ones so stupid, or is this a national phenomenon?</font></blockquote> <blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-1"><br></font></blockquote> <blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-1">Wim</font></blockquote> <div><br></div> <div><br></div> <x-sigsep><pre>-- </pre></x-sigsep> <blockquote><font face="New York" color="#0000FF">Vince Mrykalo<i> RPT MPT</i></font></blockquote> <blockquote><font face="Arial Black" color="#0000FF">Senior Piano Technician</font></blockquote> <blockquote><font face="New York" size="+1" color="#0000FF"><b>Crane School of Music</b></font></blockquote> </body> </html>