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Re: This very interesting and very important thread
Posted by history teacher on 5/18/08
On 5/18/08, L. Swilley wrote:
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> Many of the comments here have been very interesting indeed
> and worthy of further discussion: >
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> "Part of high school training for life in general and not
> matter what job you have in the future you must 1) show up
> (attendance) 2)Finish tasks presented to you 3) Do your
> assigned task as completely and well as possible 4)
> Communicate with your bosses and coworkers -teamwork. These
> are all components of school that diredctly correlate to the
> workplace or college." I'm not at all sure the model above is the prevailing model in the
workplace anymore - it harkens back to the assembly line
mentality. Independent thought is wanted at the workplace in
these modern times and my school certainly does not foster that.
What we seem to teach is compliance. Compliance to authority and
a rather unquestioning compliance to authority at that. I've long
not understood why a participatory democracy wants its schools to
emphasize unquestioning compliance. With the assembly lines having moved overseas to people desperate
for any job and where health care costs are not bankrupting
business, what our country has become is the creative center of
the world. The idea place, the cutting edge of the revolution
that has been computers and the Internet - is that kind of
thinking what we teach in high school? Not in mine but perhaps
it's different elsewhere.
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I agree with L. Swilley. Our faith in our educational system is
predicated upon the belief that facts are retained and remembered
and that these facts somehow are of crucial importance. I would
place my greater faith in the school that does emphasize habits of
mind - dialogue and discussion, independent thought, choice in
curriculum, and development of the basic skills that are reading,
writing, speaking, listening, math, and these days - computer skills.
Posts on this thread, including this one
- Administrators changing seniors grades!, 5/15/08, by BMoreTeacher.
- Re: Administrators changing seniors grades!, 5/15/08, by Rodeo.
- Re: A question. , 5/16/08, by L. Swilley .
- Re: Further on this interesting case , 5/16/08, by L. Swilley .
- Re: NCLB, 5/16/08, by LbP.
- Re: A question. , 5/16/08, by What????.
- Re: NCLB, 5/16/08, by Rodeo.
- Re: A question. , 5/17/08, by ACP.
- Re: Thanks, ACP, 5/17/08, by L. Swilley .
- Re: Administrators changing seniors grades!, 5/17/08, by Sara.
- Re: NCLB, 5/17/08, by to Rodeo.
- Re: Further on this interesting case / completely agree, 5/17/08, by Sara.
- Re: Thanks, ACP, 5/17/08, by ACP.
- Re: Further on this interesting case , 5/17/08, by I agree.
- Re: A question. , 5/17/08, by To ACP.
- Re: A question. , 5/17/08, by ACP.
- Re: Administrators changing seniors grades!, 5/17/08, by BMorePeachy.
- Re: Administrators changing seniors grades!, 5/17/08, by think of the workplace.
- Re: Administrators changing seniors grades!, 5/18/08, by high school English teacher.
- Re: This very interesting and very important thread, 5/18/08, by L. Swilley .
- Re: A question - tracking students early on , 5/18/08, by BTrack.
- Re: Administrators changing seniors grades!, 5/18/08, by history teacher.
- Re: This very interesting and very important thread, 5/18/08, by history teacher.
- Re: This very interesting and very important thread, 5/18/08, by BMoreTeacher .
- Re: Administrators changing seniors grades!, 5/18/08, by history teacher.
- Re: This very interesting and very important thread, 5/19/08, by Catsister.
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