I did not mean to disrespect my students. As Jim D. noted, public
schools do little to inspire or interest students much in education,
even with the wonderful new technology of teaching to the test. Schools
are underfunded and teachers are underpaid and not respected for the
work they do.
At the same time, students at my school do this have to pay significant
amounts for their education. I think I mentioned before that I regard
the distraction of too many hours of work off campus as the worst
influence on education. Removing subsidies would only make things even
worse.
I understand some people might think that privatized education might do
a better job, but we can let that go here, because I suspect that such a
debate would create more heat than light.
The most successful professor here in campus in terms of inspiring
students was the head of the campus drinking club when he took my class.
He turned his life around and has done a magnificent job here.
I don't attribute his success to Michael Perelman's wonderful teaching.
Teaching is like dating where different styles just happen to mesh. He
was ready for myself. Others are open to other fact that members methods
of teaching.
Teachers here do not get much positive feedback from the administration
for good teaching. Nor is there a good mechanism for helping each other
in doing a better job. After a while, some of the faculty succumb
treating teaching as just another day job. That, too, also turns off
some students.
To make matters worse, pressure from the administration (no doubt
responding to pressure from political forces) are moving fast to create
a No Child Left Behind approach to education.
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Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
Chico, CA
95929
530 898 5321
fax 530 898 5901
http://michaelperelman.wordpress.com
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