"But Can You Teach?"

All men are mortal.
Socrates is mortal.
Therefore, Socrates is a man.

I raised my hand. "Birds are mortal too, aren't they?" I asked, hoping he would correct his error.

"Yes," our teacher agreed.

"So Socrates could be a bird?"

He smiled benignly. "No. Socrates doesn't have feathers."

You can't make this stuff up. More sobering is the fact that I need to get going on a job search of my own. Read the whole thing. Via Arts and Letters Daily.