[Leica] Re: world press winners 2006

[jonathan at openhealth.org (Jonathan Borden)]

  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