Brad, As is so often the case, you've hit the nail right on the head. The modern education system for most young people is a travesty and, to the dullest and the brightest (that is, brighter than their teachers), a gross injustice.
I suspect that, you loved junior school up to puberty but hated it afterwards. That was my experience, anyway. Keith At 16:35 01/02/03 -0500, you wrote: >Harry Pollard wrote: >> Karen, >> >> You know the old saw about either giving a hungry man a fish, or >> teaching him how to fish. >> >> 'Tis the same with kids. You can either "larn" them - or you can teach >> them how to learn. >> >> My experience in observing hundreds of high school is that there is not >> much learning how to learn involved in education. For example they don't >> learn how to use the library, they "do" library. >> >> An important part of learning how to learn is the urge to learn. This is >> dampened rather than enthused in the modern high school. > >[snip] > >This sounds good to me. But how far are you willing to go? > >As a child, every assignment that was imposed on me just >stifled me and ultimately made me resentful. >Every grade taught me that >people could hurt me, which my parents had already >amply demonstrated. I'm not sure what would have been >best for me, but one option would have been to make >me a member of the faculty >(at age, e.g., 12 if not earlier...) >so I could teach instead >of stew. > >It probably doesn't prove anything that >finally at age about 45 I got an opportunity to do a >major project 100% my way (my dissertation), and I >*loved* it. Maybe I needed to be tortured for >45 years in order to be able to learn at age 45? (I >doubt this, but it is possible, just like the big >spot on Jupiter may have been the thing that enabled >me to do my dissertation....) > >My point is that there are *exceptions* out there, >and, unless one wants to repeat the lesson of >Bertolt Brecht's play _The Exception and the Rule_ >(which I will be glad to explain if anyone needs to >learn it because it is a very important lesson), >then one may need to do very unusual things with >very unusual people. > >**************** SEXY ******************* > >Are you into nurturing young persons' sexual >pleasure? If not, then please have the decency >to not use the word "sexy" in this context. > >There are at least 2 kinds of sexual abuse. One >kind has been in the news a lot these days. But there >is another kind which gets off on repressing the >child's sexuality. In all sincerity, if I could >have been sure I would not get a venereal disease >from it, I would rather have been raped by my >teachers than repressed as I was by them. I mean >this entirely seriously. Never again. > >\brad mccormick > >-- > Let your light so shine before men, > that they may see your good works.... (Matt 5:16) > > Prove all things; hold fast that which is good. (1 Thes 5:21) > ><![%THINK;[SGML+APL]]> Brad McCormick, Ed.D. / [EMAIL PROTECTED] >----------------------------------------------------------------- > Visit my website ==> http://www.users.cloud9.net/~bradmcc/ > >_______________________________________________ >Futurework mailing list >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >http://scribe.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------- Keith Hudson,6 Upper Camden Place, Bath BA1 5HX, England Tel:01225 312622/444881; Fax:01225 447727; E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://scribe.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework
