Who Wants a Quiz Today ?

by Lucas J. Mather, TRP

Professor: Who wants a quiz today? We’ll vote.

Students: [tired, grumpity, worried, waiting to vote no].

Professor: Ok, here we go: so whoever wants to vote “yes” on taking a quiz today, sit-there-and-look-bored.

[3 second pause, professor glances around the room quickly].

Professor: wow, unanimous. Amazing. So rare for a democracy.

[Professor turns around, begins writing the 5 minute quiz question on the board].

Students : [groans, wimpers, w-t-f’s, grumblings–but, one guy and two pretty girls are smiling, confident, happy , and these 3 catch the sympathetic eye of the professor].

Professor: I see a few outliers, the few who aren’t bored and thus who voted no on this quiz. Democracies, with their majority rule, tend to trample upon discrete and insular minorities.

Copyright Lucas J. Mather, 2014
All Rights Reserved
Originally published to Facebook Wed. 17 Sept 2014 at 4:32 pm

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