On Sun, 1 Mar 2009 12:38:20 -0500, Louis Schmier wrote: > We talk of classroom diversity in the traditional racial, gender, ethnic, > religious, and whatever terms only too often to cluster students into > simplistic, > distorting, and misleading racial, gender, ethnic, religious, etc, etc, etc > stereotypes in > the classroom. Let me give you a cold fact I've discovered about true > classroom > diversity. Students are like snowflakes: no two are the same; none is > necessarily > symmetrical; each is spectacular; each gives you the chills. >And, that's not a snow job.
A few points: (1) Needs more cowbell. (2) You're saying that students are all alike, that is, each is unique. (3) If we think of the differences among students in factor analysis terms, namely, systematic variance (i.e., common variance and specific variance) and error/random variance, then are you saying (a) there is no common variance? (b) there is only specific variance and error variance? (c) there is only error variance? If (c), then that would explain a lot about students. (4) You do not provide a "snow job"; the weather is doing a wonderful job of that today. However, I do believe that there has to be a pony hidden somewhere in your post. Make it a snow day. -Mike Palij New York University [email protected] --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly ([email protected])
