TEACHSOC: Teaching and the shape of our thinking

[Del Thomas Ph D]

Lecture halls, teacher/preacher models and grades are not the only factors that promote the learned ignorance seen in 911, FEMA, or not being able to get a plane on the correct runway....  or 90+ deaths a year due to physician error. The good old American can do is  false consciousness.    For example, we are now being told that we have prevented attacks......... forgetting that there was a ten year gap between the first and second trade center attacks.   In an interview regarding regime change in Iran Michael A. Ledeen failed to mention we over threw a their democratically elected government in 1951. We have learned to ignore ....  because our educational system was  intended as a dalliance situation for the sons of the chosen ...... until they took over daddy's company.    So it didn't matter that we had a sage on a stage....and focused on the transfer of information  ..... adoptive learning.   As Durkheim has warned us  this mechanical stuff is primitive ...... it is the non linear.....organic adaptive learning that is required......   Take a look at Hampshire college....they never required SAT's and there are no grades or exams more then 60% of their graduates have gone to grad school. And while not all of their grads are Ken Burns, Jon Krakauer or Sander Thoenes.......... Hampshire grads have gone on to win numerous prestigious academic fellowships including 14 Fulbrights, Mellon and Javits fellowships, and a Guggenheim fellowship, among others. A interesting feature of the college is that it starts with the plan not the budget...... as a result the average class size is 16.  Del --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Teaching Sociology" group. To post to this group, send email to teachsoc@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/teachsoc -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---