As I've been preparing my crim law outline, I keep saying to myself "could it really be this simple? Because it sure didn't seem this simple in class."

Prof Crim maintained for 15 weeks that he was unusual in his refusal to "spoon-feed" us the material. Fair enough, but the cost of that style is that so much time & energy is spent apprehending the basic doctrine that there's not much time to go into more sophisticated applications of the material.

I'm sure the prof would say the concepts only seem simple now because we've tangled with them for three months. Well ... maybe. It seems like there are plenty of hard topics in crim law however. Why not let the simple ones be simple so the hard ones can be hard. Instead of making the simple ones be hard, and the hard ones beyond the range of comprehension.

12 Dec 04