Sometimes teachers believe that writing objectives is too time. consuming and detracts from other more productive work. Some misperceptions about the amount of detail necessary may account for this reluctance. If we feel obligated to produce ten or twenty objectives for each class, the task indeed is overwhelming and counterproductive. The number of objectives and degree of detai does depend on and vary according to the level of instruc required tion and subject area, but if we feel we are wasting too much time preparing objectives, we probably are. The use of objectives is perse not at fault here; it is a matter of overdoing it, being too detailed writing too many objectives for a simple segment of learning. I still recall, many years later, reviewing curriculum for a nursing assis- tants program in which thirty objectives were listed for bed making, objectives to which, naturally enough, neither the teachers nor the students paid much attention