BUNKER ( TOTEKING) AND THE INNATE INCOMPETENCE OF SOME PEOPLE FOR SCIENCES

 We were unable to understand Sciences. We had tried everything. We were so incompetents for the subject that we were even useless for cheating: the teacher managed to catch us because we used to make mistakes even copying the exam from the student in front of us. Completely desperate, but with a firm attitude for not repeating a course, we decided to draw up a plan to steal the final exam of Physics. We knew a person who had been succeed: a classmate had chased a teacher to the teacher´s room and had memorized the little cubbyhole where she kept her papers. One day, due to the fact that the teacher´s room was empty and all the teachers were in their classes, he managed to be expelled of his own class because of his bad behaviour . Then, he successfully dodged the teacher who was guarding the hallway, came into the teacher´s room and ended up finding the exam in the cabinet. Of course, he shared it and all his classmates passed with good grades. And naturally as well, the teacher discovered us, deduced our modus operandi and since then, the security system of that room improved significantly

As author of this blog and as a teacher  I should fight against the notion of people being bad at Sciences by nature as well as  accepting the fact that there are people  who are bad at Music or Sports per se . But my experience confirms what Tote´s text points out. What can we do?

We are not going to insist on

TRISTAM SHANDY (LAURENCE STERNE) AND THE IDEAL ANGLE FOR ORATORY

 He stood before them with his body swayed, and bent forwards just so far, as to make an angle of 85 degrees and a half upon the plain of the horizon;——which sound orators, to whom I address this, know very well, to be the true persuasive angle of incidence;—in any other angle you may talk and preach;—’tis certain,—and it is done every day;—but with what effect,—I leave the world to judge!

The necessity of this precise angle of 85 degrees and a half to a mathematical exactness,—does it not shew us, by the way,—how the arts and sciences mutually befriend each other?

This angle is really important and you´d better not abuse of it. Between the Moonwalker by Michael Jackson and backing away from someone or dodging a bullet in Matrix, there are lots of intermediate situations. In my opinion, the people who use the angle of 85 degrees are usually a bit annoying and their breath is likely to smell badly. Anyway, as the text itself says, what a good example of how well Art and Science support each other