Mason Hartman

“Senior faculty nowadays similarly squirm when former 'dunderheads' return to campus to lecture on their prizewinning screenplay or to cut the ribbon for a building funded by their entrepreneurial acumen. How did such dullards metamorphose into geniuses?”
― Mark C. Carnes, Minds on Fire: How Role-Immersion Games Transform College

“From time to time,' Turner explained, most people seek to discard their customary clothing and status markers and 'don the liberating masks of a liminal masquerade.”
― Mark C. Carnes, Minds on Fire: How Role-Immersion Games Transform College

“I'm a great test-taker," she explained. "I'm great at guessing what teachers are going to ask, and I can store dates and names like it's nobody's business. It was never a question of how much I knew, but how many correct answers I got. If I had thought about it, I would have realized that I had forgotten most of what I 'learned' three months or a semester later. But I never thought about my education. Why would I? I wasn't going to be tested on it.”
― Mark C. Carnes, Minds on Fire: How Role-Immersion Games Transform College

“Reacting students also indicated that they would be less likely to take future Reacting-type courses. The explanation, the researchers learned, was that Reacting students had worked much harder than their peers in regular seminars.”
― Mark C. Carnes, Minds on Fire: How Role-Immersion Games Transform College