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For advanced classes, use provocative quotes:

A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.

Women should be kept pregnant, barefoot and in the kitchen.

There are dozens of candidates in an appendix to Shaw's Man and Superman, the "Revolutionist's Handbook and Pocket Companion" supposedly written by one of the characters. A few I recall, probably not exactly:

Those who can, do. Those who cannot, teach.

Chastity is the most unnatural of perversions.

Anyone who is not a socialist at 20 has no heart.
Anyone who is still one at 40 has no head.

Sandy, I think perhaps the first two should be used only with male students or perhaps not at all, and I am uneasy about the rest as well in terms of how they would make students socially uncomfortable and how that would detract from their learning state. Have you tried these? Could you comment about how you have used them and what students have responded well to them? --Roger 05:47, 25 June 2006 (UTC)

I used some of these years ago in a class of Canadian gov't employees, mostly fairly senior jobs, almost all university educated, with quite advanced English. A stated course goal was to teach debate, handling controversy, etc. We'd covered stuff like (top-of-my-head examples) "perhaps, but on the other hand .." and "I don't accept your premise" in class. It worked OK, got quite lively which was what I wanted from it.

These guys also understood the notion of devil's advocate, and were able to argue for positions they did not hold. In one debate, a fairly militant feminist did quite well defending the "pregnant, barefoot, ..." position, somewhat to everyone's amusement.

On the other hand, it would be idiotic to toss these into, say, a class of Chinese undergraduates who have an utterly different background of handling opinion and controversy, and weaker English to boot. Pashley 07:09, 25 June 2006 (UTC)

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