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| Authored by: PR3J on Friday, May 10 2013 @ 01:55 PM EDT |
| Unfortunatelly it´s a common loss ...
Some of our best teachers are not able
to comply with all pressures and regulamentations that are imposed on them. The
System is broken and it is only worsen a bit every year.
Carl Sagan said
it on its The Demon-Haunted World" book ...
Ken Robinson is saying the same
things, on different ways, more recently on Out of our minds ...
They are talking about US and
UK educational systems, but I can see the same in my country ... we´re not
promoting creativity and inteligence on our kid´s minds. Just
rules.
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"[T]he IQ of a mob is the IQ of its most stupid member, divided by the number of
mobsters." - Terry Pratchet - Maskerade [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, May 10 2013 @ 03:52 PM EDT |
I still remember my worst teachers far more than my better ones. My third grade
teacher still stands out in my memory as particularly bad, although my 11th
grade history teacher is a close second.
My favorite example was a True/False question on an 11th grade history test:
T/F Labor unions are necessary in America today.
I answered false because I knew she was a big union supporter and I thought it
might upset her a little if I answered false.
Of course the answer that would have been graded as "correct" was
true.
So in my opinion teachers did it to themselves by allowing such poor teachers to
stay in the profession.
I've long had a theory that you can eliminate the bad of almost everything, by
eliminating the good as well and just only allowing the mediocre. I think the
efforts to eliminate the bad teachers without just firing them, has caused the
elimination of the good.
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, May 10 2013 @ 10:54 PM EDT |
Well, at least you are not in Mexico where teaching jobs can be bought or
inherited. We are currently seeing protests over plans to reform the system,
some people don't want to lose their nice cushy arrangements.
Tufty
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, May 13 2013 @ 03:18 AM EDT |
Good grief! Why would anyone need to be told what "signal to
noise ratio" means, when the words tell one what it means!
If it were called "grekhoo" I could understand an
explanation being needed, but then "it means signal-to-noise
ratio" would do!
And listening to the radio would surely have lent them an
experiential foundation to relate to!
(if anything, this illustrates that different people take in
information in different ways - and one can tell some people
something with perfect clarity till one is blue in the face
and they never take it in)
Cute story![ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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