As the quarter progressed, the Lie of the Day became more subtle, and many ended up slipping past a majority of the students unnoticed until a particularly alert person stopped the lecture to flag the disinformation.
Every once in a while, a lecture would end withnobody catching the lie which created its own unique classroom experience—in any other college lecture, end of the class hour prompts a swift rush of feet and zipping up of bookbags as students make a beeline for the door.
On the days when nobody caught the lie, we all sat in silence, looking at each other as Dr. K, looking quite pleased with himself, said with a sly grin: "Ah ha! Each of you has one falsehood in your lecture notes. Discuss amongst yourselves what it might be, and I will tell you next Monday. That is all."
Those lectures forced us to puzzle things out[4], work out various angles in study groups so we could approach him with our theories the following week.
Brilliant...but what made Dr. K's technique most insidiously evil and genius was, during the most technically difficult lecture of the entire quarter, there was no lie. At the end of the lecture in which he was not called on any lie, he offered the same challenge to work through the notes; on the following Monday, he fielded[5] our theories for what the falsehood might be (and shooting them down "no, in fact that is true—look at [x]") for almost ten minutes before he finally revealed: "Do you remember the first lecture—how I said that 'every lecture has a lie?'"
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