Professor Quotes!
Psychology (Dr. McBrayer):
"You chose Berry for a liberal arts education. You wanted us to spread darkness where there once was light!"
"I have six brothers and we each have three sisters."
"It's no excuse to be late for class just because you went to the Pumpkin Seeds concert."
Government (Dr. Hickman):
"If you want to sound tough, you say things like 'clip'...like I just did."
"My dogs are skeptics. I talk to them all day about the existence of Unicorns...and they don't believe me. Okay, I hope I'm not stepping on anyone's shoes. No one in here believes in Unicorns, right?"
Hickman: Saudi Arabia is a country that does not offer much liberty.
Random girl: So you can't wear glasses?
"There are five communist countries left in the world: Cuba, Laos, North Korea, the People's Republic of China, and I can't remember the fifth. So now there are four communist countries left in the world."
Okay that's it for now. Kind of lame so far, but I foresee a humorous semester.
Perhaps the strangest quote so far is too involved to write down, so I'll explain. Today in Government, Dr. Hickman was saying something about the difference between democratic and authoritarian governments and I decided to throw my two cents in about something* and he became convinced that I was a Nazi apologist, which pretty much came out of nowhere because I was not defending the Nazis. I didn't correct him because I was trying to get my point across without having to give my personal opinion explicitly, but he just couldn't shake the notion that I was a Nazi apologist. So bizarre. The class probably thinks I'm nuts.
*I said (or attempted to say) that you can't derive success from goodness, and that, had the Nazi's won WW2, and they were closer to winning than Hickman acknowledges, they would have been successful despite having a "weaker form of government," (using Hickman's description in the quotes) which contradicted what he was saying about how the reason United States is successful is because it's a democracy.
"You chose Berry for a liberal arts education. You wanted us to spread darkness where there once was light!"
"I have six brothers and we each have three sisters."
"It's no excuse to be late for class just because you went to the Pumpkin Seeds concert."
Government (Dr. Hickman):
"If you want to sound tough, you say things like 'clip'...like I just did."
"My dogs are skeptics. I talk to them all day about the existence of Unicorns...and they don't believe me. Okay, I hope I'm not stepping on anyone's shoes. No one in here believes in Unicorns, right?"
Hickman: Saudi Arabia is a country that does not offer much liberty.
Random girl: So you can't wear glasses?
"There are five communist countries left in the world: Cuba, Laos, North Korea, the People's Republic of China, and I can't remember the fifth. So now there are four communist countries left in the world."
Okay that's it for now. Kind of lame so far, but I foresee a humorous semester.
Perhaps the strangest quote so far is too involved to write down, so I'll explain. Today in Government, Dr. Hickman was saying something about the difference between democratic and authoritarian governments and I decided to throw my two cents in about something* and he became convinced that I was a Nazi apologist, which pretty much came out of nowhere because I was not defending the Nazis. I didn't correct him because I was trying to get my point across without having to give my personal opinion explicitly, but he just couldn't shake the notion that I was a Nazi apologist. So bizarre. The class probably thinks I'm nuts.
*I said (or attempted to say) that you can't derive success from goodness, and that, had the Nazi's won WW2, and they were closer to winning than Hickman acknowledges, they would have been successful despite having a "weaker form of government," (using Hickman's description in the quotes) which contradicted what he was saying about how the reason United States is successful is because it's a democracy.