Alan wrote:
On Wed, March 19, 2008 10:49 am, Ralph Shumaker wrote:
Alan wrote:
On Wed, March 19, 2008 10:11 am, Ralph Shumaker wrote:
A teacher doesn't need to be an expert on anything. They just need to
know (or learn) enough to teach it.
That would be a poor teacher, and I am saddened that you think merely
being a chapter ahead of the students is quality education.
By that reasoning, only the very top PhD is qualified (if even that
one). Sorry, but that's a ridiculous reason and I am terrified by
people who think like you.
That's a interesting interpretation of what I said.
I merely said that a teacher should be adept at the subject they want to
teach. Merely being one chapter ahead of the students does not qualify.
I'm not sure how you go from that requirement to "only the very top PhD".
By extension of what you said. The natural conclusion of your
reasoning. Or perhaps what you meant was merely that a teacher needs to
be at least a little more than just "one chapter ahead". You suggested
that "one chapter ahead" is insufficient without any qualification
beyond that. The natural conclusion is that the teacher either be
finished with the final chapter ever written or in the process of
writing it.
Just how far ahead does the teacher need to be? And who makes that
determination? I can easily see myself homeschooling and when it comes
to something I don't know, sitting in on a class on the subject (with my
child if he's comfortable with that, or alone if not), having a tutor to
tutor us both, online instruction, or whatever other resource may be
available.
Besides, *you* made an interesting interpretation of what _I_ said. I
didn't say anything about only being one chapter ahead. Those words
were yours. What I said was "They just need to know (or learn) enough
to teach it". That's a far cry from being "just one chapter ahead".
I feel I was justified in "interpreting" (and minimalizing) what you
said. If I wasn't, why did you first do it to me?
--
Ralph
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But when a particular set of men, in exalted stations, undertake to say,
"we are the standards of propriety and elegance, and if all men do not
conform to our practice, they shall be accounted vulgar and ignorant,"
they take a very great liberty with the rules of the language and the
rights of civility.
--Noah Webster, 1789
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