Excerpt from Brown Alumni Monthly, Vol. 79: March, 1979 Jack Neusner's classroom manner may seem slapdash and intimidating. People in general feel that professors do what they do because they like it. That's not so, he says. A dentist uses a drill to do his work; I have to use humor. You have to make the person care deeply about the things you say, because if there's no caring, there's no learn ing, so you have to stand on your head. You have to get their attention. Criticism is our stock in trade not because we want to be mean but because we need to make a point. Ninety-eight percent of the things I do in the classroom maybe even 99 per cent are calculated. But the students don't know that. They'd say 85 percent was spontaneous. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.