Compare And Contrast Crow Lake By Tom Wayman

As we were look at the two short stories, “Students” and “Crow Lake”, it makes realize that each teacher has such a different overview on teaching. We know that students learn with their own methods and how the teachers approach affect their education. Although both teachers are professors and have the same goal, what makes their attitude and observation different?

In each story, the way that the students learn is a major point the author was trying to get across. In the poem “Students” written by Tom Wayman, it displays how each students learns with different methods and even though some may not be the best way, it will always be imprinted in their brains. Some of the techniques are: “Vaccination Theory of Education,” “Dipstick,” “Kung Fu,” and finally “The Easy Listening Theory of Learning.” When reading both of the stories that are coming from a teaching perspective, I think what makes them different is that in the story “Student” the professor acknowledged the fact that students have different ways of learning. The professor found out all the different methods, and then found a way around them to make it work. However, in the story “Crow Lake” the professor did not care nor want to care about her students and her teaching methods. The teacher loved doing the research as it gave her much joy, but

As it says in the story, “Teaching I don’t enjoy at all. This is primarily a research university, and I only have four hours a week in front of a class, but it takes me almost a