The Tragedy of Praxis

Governing revolutionary France, teaching… it’s all the same.

“The man who with such nobility held that it was infamous to lay down one’s arms while there remained, somewhere in the world, one master and one slave, is the same man who had to agree to suspend the Constitution of 1793 and to adopt arbitrary rule.” – Camus on Saint-Just

If you let students choose their own topics…

…you get research papers on:

-drug wars in Puerto Rico

-breast augmentation surgery

-history of iPods

-how to prevent youth violence

-breakdancing

-the Holocaust

-various media portrayals of the Rihanna/Chris story

-how sleep deprivation affects adolescents

-how smoking pot affects adolescents

-Nikola Tesla

-building and fixing computers

-LeBron James

-Lil Wayne

-how fast food affects adolescents

-how nuclear power has changed warfare

-the evils of capitalism

-history of basketball

-ancient Chinese history

-history of film technology

I really can’t wait to read these.