Ah, candy bribery, one of the most effective instructional aides ever invented, though not one I could use much, most of the people I've taught were adults and either enthusiastic sci/med major or soldiers, and the latter you can yell at. Surprisingly fear and terror are handy tools for instruction even on subjects requiring critical reasoning In any event a very different audience then you presumably work with, though I don't recall your specific specialty.

Good luck on the job hunt, though, I've a lot of friends in education and until very recently it had been a fairly dry market, in state, lots of cuts and it hit the more junior staff and new teachers hardest of course, though we have a micro-boom for a little while do to a lot of retirements attached to an impending pension alteration.




So does law apparently, ironically 90% of what I know about history methodology I learned about two months back while visiting one of my warbuddies who is doing his grad work in history and shares my fondness for long arguments over good dark beers.





Ah, Joel. Well, if there's two issues he tends to be most sympathetic to the right on its God and Guns so it might not have appealed to him as much, but one can never tell. The author is a red meat vendor of flavor closer to John Birch than Ann Coulter, obviously of the alternate persuasion, though it is often hard to tell on the fringe, and his 'degree' is in homeopathic medicine and he's a self-proclaimed author/expert on attention deficit disorder so I can't see his brand of rabble-rousing appealing too much to Joel, though it's hard to guess.