Come on, Susan. You teach. You know as well as every other professor that
virtually no textbook is perfect for the course you teach.
Dear Loni,
Nope. But I certainly take every care in choosing my materials so that it supports what I value most as a teacher. In my mind indpendent investigation of truth and the critical thinking necessary to engage in it are not sufficiently valued by Ruhi's emphasis on rote learning.
However, you seem to want to throw out the baby with the bath water.
That depends on which side of the bed I get up in the morning. ;-} Somedays I think Ruhi is fixable and somedays I don't think so. But you seem to have forgotten that before I criticized Book 6 I defended Ruhi against the charge that it was replacing firesides.
Most of all, you have never seen the Ruhi program in action, that is with
properly trained tutors, willing participants and a supportive local
spiritual assembly
I have seen the program in action. But since my assessment of it didn't change that much you want to blame it on poor tutoring or the unwillingness of the participants. F You've not persuaded me there is anything wrong with the tutors, at least no the ones I've worked with. Most of them are better than the material itself, if you ask me. But I can read a text with or without the help of a tutor and if I got a good one, I would say, "That's a good tutor." I wouldn't say Ruhi is good. Only the equality of the material itself would persaude me of that.
It seems to me you are stacking the deck so that no one can make a valid criticism. You can always blame any inadequacies of the lacking of training of the tutosr or the lack of enthusiasm on the part of participants. Let the Ruhi materials be evaluated on the basis of their own merits and the tutors on the basis of their own. If those are good, they will themselves create enthusiasm and willing participation.
warmest, Susan
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