Although I’ve been teaching for 20 years, I never feel like I have that much philosophical wisdom to impart to students about learning. There is one thing though. Sometimes students ask “what do I need to get on the final to get X grade”. I now tell them that they should try to get 100 on the exam, that they should try to get 100 on all exams. If you tell them they just need an 80 to get a B+, then they might do something dumb like only try eight out of the ten problems, figuring if they get those then should be about 80. No, try to master all the material, try all the problems! Students aren’t good at deciding which problems they will be able to do and only trying some is self-defeating.
I feel the same way about Congressional races. The DCCC and DNC aren’t that good at figuring out how to expend resources. Sure, you can look at Cook PVIs and so on, but blowing 10 million to give yourself a tiny edge in one race is dumb given that you could take a flyer on 20 other races with that 10 million and that you never know when a Republican Congressman is going go attack someone or get prosecuted for pedophilia.
So I’d like to see someone from the Democratic party say that their goal in 2018 is to win all 435 seats. All of them, Katie.
Anyhoo, glad to see the DNC is contesting the race in SC-5.
Interesting: @TomPerez + @MartinOMalley heading to SC tmrw to boost @Archie4Congress, whose race has so flown under radar.
— Alex Seitz-Wald (@aseitzwald) June 2, 2017
As I said, I think Archie Parnell is a good candidate. Let’s reach our fundraising goal for him.