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“[L]ecturers and professors are neither capable of nor tasked with evaluating the facial expressions and gestures of the students.”

Burqa backers sure do twist themselves up into pretzels defending the garment. As another German university bans full facial veiling in classrooms, a Green Party politician assures us that teaching has nothing to do with seeing the people you’re teaching.

Margaret Soltan, February 13, 2019 2:18PM
Posted in: democracy

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4 Responses to ““[L]ecturers and professors are neither capable of nor tasked with evaluating the facial expressions and gestures of the students.””

  1. dmf Says:

    as if the students aren’t lost in their screens in endless rows of the lecture auditorium…

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/05/17/chinese-school-uses-facial-recognition-monitor-student-attention/

  2. Van L Hayhow Says:

    Please tell me this article comes from the Onion.

  3. Margaret Soltan Says:

    Van: The Onion has done some funny stuff on the subject of the burqa, but this is the real deal.

  4. University Diaries » An honest and thoughtful take on the burqa from Brandon Robshaw. Says:

    […] to admit that burqas pose a real problem in intellectual settings. Instead they end up saying the most moronic shit about the glories of teaching silent hooded beings. So bravo Robshaw for stating the obvious but […]

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