Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/02/11
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]True, and not true, Jonathan. I was simply trying to find out if they knew a bloody thing. In past years a good percentage would have gotten that one right. ___ Sent with SnapperMail www.snappermail.com ..... Original Message ....... On Sat, 11 Feb 2006 12:08:42 -0500 Jonathan Borden <jonathan@openhealth.org> wrote: " B. D. Colen wrote: " "> How's this for depressing? Thursday night I handed out a "pop quiz" "> to the "> first meeting of my MIT doc photo/pj class. It was ridiculously "> simple, and "> was designed to give me a way to throw out anyone I needed to throw "> out "> because I always have too many kids sign up. One question was: "> "> 2. Who coined the phrase ?the decisive moment?? "> A. Susan Sontag "> B. Mathew Brady "> C. Henri Cartier-Bresson "> D. None of the above "> Only THREE of 19 MIT students got it right - and I think they were "> guessing, "> because not one of the kids later acknowledged being familiar with "> HCB's "> work. Further, NOT ONE knew what Magnum was. Oh, most frequent "> guess on "> question 2? Susan Sontag. :-( "> "> Fookin kids! :-( " "B.D., " "In all fairness, that's why they are in school! Unless there is an "extreme competition to get into a program I don't generally expect "students, particularly at the undergraduate level, to know anything. " "Jonathan " "_______________________________________________ "Leica Users Group. "See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information