Game: This or That

[North Star]

Clean shaven.
And traditional classroom.

Frost or Pound?

[Lykren]

Pound, but not for the Cantos, and Frost has some good stuff so it's close.

Being a lion or an eagle?

[Lykren]

No. Teachers need to be mentors.

I've had about one good year in the last 17 years of experiencing ordinary education, when the teacher helped to clarify my thinking while also sharing their understanding in an accessible and humane way. I learned to read of course. But overall I find the mentorship model to be a very disheartening, disturbing thing. I can't say if the flipped method you speak of would be better or worse.

[North Star]

I've had about one good year in the last 17 years of experiencing ordinary education, when the teacher helped to clarify my thinking while also sharing their understanding in an accessible and humane way. I learned to read of course. But overall I find the mentorship model to be a very disheartening, disturbing thing. I can't say if the flipped method you speak of would be better or worse.

Imagine a flipped chemistry classroom. That might be difficult, but once you've managed to do it, it should be easy to imagine a flipped chemistry teacher.

Being a lion or an eagle? A dimwit descendant of dinosaurs, actually a dinosaur, or a mammal living in the savanna and hunting antelopes, and lying down? Lion obviously.

Gauguin or Chagall?

[Lykren]

Wings, man! Flying!

Gauguin. I think Chagall is kinda sappy, haha.

Short films or long ones?

[Pompey Bum]

Long. Books, too.

Blissfully ignorant or knowledgeably unhappy?

[North Star]

Knowledgeably unhappy, at least when the ignorance is of the kind that will eventually damage you.
And long movies definitely, if by short you mean shorter than a feature film.

Would you rather be a forest or a street?

[Pompey Bum]

Well, perhaps a deserted road that wound thorough a really spooky forest. You know, if I could.

Simon or Garfunkle

[Lykren]

The one who wrote the songs, not sure which and I don't care enough to look them up.

Sally Mann or Vivian Maier? Look them up and you will not regret it.

[North Star]

Maier.

Koudelka or Kertesz?

[Pompey Bum]

I don't care enough to look them up.

It was a joke, Lykern. North's previous question was taken from one of their songs.

Sally Mann or Vivian Maier? Look them up and you will not regret it.

I haven't read Sally Mann, but I love history enough to appreciate an archaeological find like Maier's photographs.

Ham or turkey at holidays (excluding Thanksgiving)?

[Lykren]

WOW they are great. Had not heard of them! Thank you!

Kertesz from a very quick inspection but a hard choice.

Elephants or guinea pigs?

EDIT: Ham. and you haven't READ Sally Mann? Excuse me?

[Pompey Bum]

Elephants. Guinea pigs tend to run away during tiger hunts.

and you haven't READ Sally Mann? Excuse me?

Yeah well, I'm reading a 3,000 page book at the moment, and I've got a 4,000 pager in line next. If Sally loves me, she'll wait.

Hershey's chocolate or Hershey's chocolate with almonds?

[Lykren]

Almonds.

Sally Mann is a photographer, I'll have you know! And I'm reading a 4,300 page book right now. Hrrrmmmmph.

Brancusi or Moore?

[Pompey Bum]

Dinty Moore was the superior canned stew, in my opinion.

Grant or Lee?