excerpt from a letter to a friend

I don’t know what’s happening elsewhere, but in the Honors College here at Baylor — or rather among those of us who teach the humanities — it’s been fun to see what we’re doing to banish the LLM demons. Most of us are incorporating a lot of handwriting into our teaching: several colleagues have been doing blue-book exams, a couple have bought their students cheap composition books from Walmart and are making them create commonplace books, and I am regularly handing out passages from the texts we’re reading, printed out with very wide margins, and asking students to annotate them. I tell them I want their pages to look like Balzac’s galley proofs.

We’re not just going back to the pre-PC era, we’re going back to the pre-typing era.

And the students almost to a person think it’s cool! They know that they’re being protected from temptations that they couldn’t resist.