Quoting Ray Evans Harrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> "Men must be taught as if you taught them not and things unknown
> revealed as
> things forgot."
> Alexander Pope
[snip]
Let us grant that different persons [most felicitously...] learn in
different ways....
As for me, I do not like to be manipulated, and I don't
like either "discovery learning" (Where I have to discover
what the teacher already knows: "Just vomit it up, teach, and
be done with it!") or "surprise endings" (where the book,
being already written and even printed, already
contains the "surprise" as part of its past even if not
of my past, just yet.) I think Socrates was a
manipulative weasel, too.
As for me: Tell me everything you know. Provide me
with every tool you have. Clear away all obstacles and
provide all resources.
If then I cannot contribute anything new of value
to our shared world ("value added"), then perhaps
it will be appropriate to consider having to treat me as
Mr. (not "the") Pope says "Men" are to be taught.
I really find such a world, as Dr. Kelly said of his
world last week, not the kind of place I want to
live in.
Man is a thing to be overcome.
(--Nietzsche)
\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]
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