It is fucking dire because its message is so infantile and easy to understand that it is immensely more attractive than reality. — jastopher
you ask the person to only pick a single purpose — LD Saunders
Sounds a bit like word salad to me. At best weasel words. — charleton
But as a teacher it ought to be your duty to nod sagely and ignore those bastards that are clueless and get on with your job for the sake of the next generation.
Box tickers make bad teachers.
Those who can, teach. Those that cannot, lead. — charleton
This is true, but so general as to be useless. — jastopher
If "basic knowledge that will be useful in everyday life" is all you have to offer, then you have a problem. — tim wood
Most students are already masters of their lives - we might well call it mere survival - but it's what gets them through their days. It's what they trust and know, even if it amounts to their making virtues of their vices. — tim wood
I will invite you to class one day so that you can judge from a better perspective. Mainly because there is not really a way to give a good description here.On the basis of your description, I doubt that you have much to offer there. — tim wood
And you forgot two: salesman and manipulator — tim wood
What is the name of what you teach?Critical thinking, investigation and evaluation, written and oral communication skills are some of the things I call basic knowledge. — Sir2u
What is the name of what you teach? — tim wood
If you agree with the first part, and you're (apparently) a teacher, then what do you say the body of knowledge is that you can impart? — tim wood
If you agree with the first part, and you're (apparently) a teacher, then what do you say the body of knowledge is that you can impart?
— tim wood
Not sure exactly what you are asking here. — Sir2u
I try to give my students basic knowledge that will be useful in everyday life. — Sir2u
My understanding of a teacher is that he or she possesses knowledge.... You try to give your students basic knowledge. Is that your body of knowledge? What of Eng. Lit., grammar, writing, psych., sociology, cultural history? — tim wood
So it's up to you to say: do you make your students better in some sense with Englsh, Psych., Soc., History? Or in basic knowledge? — tim wood
Are you referring to another brick in the wall?Education is an indoctrination into a world that forbids creativity, individuality, and promotes conformity through competition and measurement of 'progress'. It is the industrial production of adults depressed into compliance with a vacuous and self-destructive world of production/consumption. — unenlightened
Perhaps simplicity is the shortest path out. — tim wood
You've self-identified as someone who teaches various subjects - without qualifying yourself as a person in possession of knowledge about these subjects — tim wood
but that what you teach is "basic knowledge." — tim wood
Suppose your living required you row your dory off the beach into the ocean to catch fish to sell and to eat. Suppose someone approached you to teach them how to fish. They might ask you what you know, and could you impart that knowledge, teach it. You might answer, "I know how to fish, and I can teach someone how to fish." — tim wood
That would be a long list.What do you know, that you can teach? — tim wood
An educational establishment is also a social institution. — unenlightened
Children do not in general approach teachers to ask them to teach; rather more so, teachers approach children and ask them to learn. This changes everything. It makes a joy into a duty. — unenlightened
I wasn't, but I am an ageing hippy, so they probably read my mind. — unenlightened
Ain't that the truth. So few students nowadays want to ask questions because the fear being shown up for a dunce in front of the other dunces. And to make it worse, now we have to worry about them laughing at each other on the internet. — Sir2u
I read some book a while ago about a guy who went to an ivy league school who said that there was competition among the students to constantly ask questions and gain recognition. The point was that it put the Asian students at a disadvantage because their culture demanded that the teachers be respected and listened to, and that it was also disrespectful to the other students to force them to listen to you when there was a more learned professor in the room. — Hanover
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