A Stutter in Class
October 18, 2011
Inside Higher Education
A newspaper recently ran an article on a stuttering student who says he was told by his professor to ask his questions after class, rather than during it. And it wasn’t just any newspaper, but The New York Times, so the story immediately went viral.
The professor says she has been misunderstood and that she had no intention of stopping the student from speaking — but that she was concerned about how much the student was asking questions, and that she also had an obligation to other students in the class. “He seemed to want to answer every question,” she told the Times in a subsequent article.…
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