Thursday, November 16, 2006

Recovering Anupholsteraphobics Join Here!

A new kind of AA: "Anupholsteraphobics Anonymous?"

Anupholsteraphobia:

"... Like most of the teachers I ever encounter, I suffered from a common malady--what Stan Brimberg at the Bank Street School calls "Anupholsteraphobia": "the fear of not covering the material."
Anupholsteraphobia cannot be cured, but it can be controlled."
- From "Discipline and Publish: Faculty Work, Technology, and Accountability," Randy Bass, Georgetown University, Plenary address delivered at the AAHE Forum on Faculty Roles and Rewards, San Diego CA, January 22, 1999.
http://www.georgetown.edu/faculty/bassr/disc&pub.html


Where shall we hold the first meeting of Anupholsteraphobics Anonymous? Who has time to set the agenda? Decide what we will cover together?

Steve Gilbert

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