"I Never Signed On To Be a Chicken-Sexer"

That’s what I used to say from time to time in my philosophy classes over my forty-five-year university teaching career: “I never signed on to be a chicken-sexer.” I would make that remark when students gave me occasion to do so by asking some such question as what they had to do to earn good grades, or by sharing some relevant observation during class discussions. We would then go on to discuss together the relation between education and grading.

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