{"id":24627,"date":"2011-11-24T06:10:00","date_gmt":"2011-11-24T06:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wallace-doesnt-accept-the-silent-social-contract\/"},"modified":"2011-11-24T06:10:00","modified_gmt":"2011-11-24T06:10:00","slug":"wallace-doesnt-accept-the-silent-social-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wallace-doesnt-accept-the-silent-social-contract\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Wallace doesn\u2019t accept the silent social contract between students and professors: He takes apart and analyzes and makes explicit, in a way that is almost painful, all of the tiny conventional unspoken agreements usually made between professors and their students. \u201cEven in a seminar class,\u201d his syllabus states, \u201cit seems a little silly to require participation. Some students who are cripplingly shy, or who can\u2019t always formulate their best thoughts and questions in the rapid back-and-forth of a group discussion, are nevertheless good and serious students. On the other hand, as Prof &mdash; points out supra, our class can\u2019t really function if there isn\u2019t student participation\u2014it will become just me giving a half-assed ad-lib lecture for 90 minutes, which (trust me) will be horrible in all kinds of ways.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/articles\/life\/roiphe\/2011\/11\/david_foster_wallace_s_syllabus_is_there_any_better_.html\">David Foster Wallace\u2019s syllabus: Is there any better? &#8211; Slate Magazine<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wallace doesn\u2019t accept the silent social contract between students and professors: He takes apart and analyzes and makes explicit, in a way that is almost painful, all of the tiny conventional unspoken agreements usually made between professors and their students. \u201cEven in a seminar class,\u201d his syllabus states, \u201cit seems a little silly to require [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-words","post_format-post-format-quote"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-6pd","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24627\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}