In a 300-person lecture at the University of Wisconsin, it?s come to be expected that each student will remain faceless and nameless in the professor?s mind all semester. But, even so, there is hardly a more insulting gesture, in a class of 24, than for an educator to outright refuse to learn the small handful of students? names ? and instead hand out a deck of cards, assigning each person to be known for the next eight weeks as ?the three of hearts? or ?the king of spades.?
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