Marvin Druger

"... were a good egg there in the oviduct. You remember the battle: the sperm traveled past the epididymis...” This is a biology class? You better believe it, says Prof. Marvin Druger of Syracuse. "You have to get students to laugh first. Then they're ready to study.” In 26 years Druger has taught introductory biology to more than students. Many are majors fulfilling a distribution requirement. "They hate science,” Druger says, "so we first have to get them to like it.” The wacky cassettes are one method; jokes during lectures are another. Druger does impressions of Charies Darwin and other scientists; sometimes he impersonates a brain surgeon, an Indian scientist, even a character named Sam Sperm. "We don't cut back on subject matter,” ..."

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"... act intelligently on public issues like nuclear power, acid rain or ground water pollution. Preliminary results of a survey of 873 college science teachers by Syracuse University biology professor Marvin Druger found that only 10 percent rated their students' preparation as "excellent" or "good." "The criticism we hear is that children arc naturally excited by science, but the way science is ..."