I was just reminded of one of my favorite instructors in college. The class was titled "Performance Studies," and she was tough. The first day of class, she went on about how every one of us was going to have to get in front of the class and perform, how if we didn't have the assigment on-time, it was a zero, etc. etc. She was scary, and she meant every word of it.
Next class session, about half the students didn't show up; They dropped. They didn't want to do the work. Those that remained were either calling her bluff, or they were willing to do the work.
She wasn't bluffing. Though her tone softened, her policies didn't. We did the work, or we didn't get the grade. More dropped out, and most of the rest of us started enjoying the class more and more. By the end of class, there were fewer than ten of us left.
I've got some of their email addresses somewhere; I created a mailing list for the HU273 students for that session.
Oh, the instructor's name was Billie-Sue Berends.
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