  We discuss the teaching of the discussion surrounding Bender and Koller's
prominent ACL 2020 paper, "Climbing toward NLU: on meaning form, and
understanding in the age of data" \cite{bender2020climbing}. We present what we
understand to be the main contentions of the paper, and then recommend that the
students engage with the natural counter-arguments to the claims in the paper.
We attach teaching materials that we use to facilitate teaching this topic to
undergraduate students.
