Sitting in class right now and wishing more people would follow these simple guidelines.
Good Reasons to Speak Up in Class:
You're confused or curious about something that has been said.
A question has been asked (by a teacher or classmate) AND you feel you can supply an adequate answer/clarification.
You have thorough experience with the topic from a perspective other than what's being taught AND that perspective might legitimately enhance the understanding or appreciation of the class.
You have an especially fantastic joke to make.
Bad Reasons to Speak Up in Class:
You thought of something mildly amusing
You think, based on incomplete knowledge of the material, that your understanding of what is being presented is superior to that of your teacher and/or whatever experts (s)he is citing.
You simply don't like the way the teacher phrased something (from a nitpicky semantic point of view)
You've gone longer than you like without hearing yourself talk.
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I've come to suspect that most class discussions are, in reality, elaborate ritual mating dances, only without the mating.
That would seem to mostly sum it up. Hooray for faux-intellectual, social posturing.
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