McSweeney's Internet Tendency: How He Spent His Summer Vacation: An Interview with Jonson Miller, Part One: "Q: How did the teaching experience compare to the classes you do at Virginia Tech?



Miller: The major difference is that at school everything is basically set up to help people learn, whereas at Beckley everything is set up to prevent anyone from learning anything. If you're going to get a GED there, you have to do it on your own. On the other hand, the two teaching environments are similar in that they're both trying to produce the strange phenomenon of educated ignorance "