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The second class was the Bible. I don't remember what the rational here was. I did not get much out of the class. The teacher was not exceptionally smart. Half of the final I answered the questions so that he could not flunk me. The other half the written part, I used to criticize the teacher. He did not take criticism well, as could be expected for a person of his mentality. He gave me a D also. So my first two classes in college, I got two Ds.
One of the things I learned in college was that you didn't take the class so much as the teacher. If you didn't get a good teacher you were wasting your time. This college was a rich school being subsidized by the local town bank, for which a foundation had been established by the owner's family. So it had a fair number of good teachers, but still you had to determine who they were, mostly by asking other students.
I took an ethics class that first semester of my first fall term. That was another mistake. The first day I saw an intelligent looking person walk out. They knew something I didn't and I should have seen this teacher coming. I wrote some interesting papers but he didn't like them. This guy thought it was cool to adopt Vietnamese children from war torn Vietnam and he had adopted one. He thought himself a paragon of great character. Actually he was quite similar to the bible teacher, but more middle class. For the final we had to read the most boring tracts on abortion, so utterly devoid of interest that I could not read them. So I was at some disadvantage on the final.
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