6 years ago :: Apr 07, 2012 - 9:45PM #161 | |
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6 years ago :: Apr 08, 2012 - 1:38AM #162 | |
EXACTLY!!!! You don't go to Math class question Why 1+1=2
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6 years ago :: Apr 08, 2012 - 4:46PM #163 | |
With the exception of English literature, (which I did not have until upper grades and college), There was no discussion.
A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side. Aristotle
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6 years ago :: Apr 08, 2012 - 7:40PM #164 | |
Wow! That's amazing. We were taught in science class that no progress is ever made without questioning theories and results. Maybe it's a generational thing?
Our need to learn should always outweigh our need to be right
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. More people would learn from their mistakes if they weren't so busy denying them. |
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6 years ago :: Apr 08, 2012 - 8:09PM #165 | |
" Maybe it's a generational thing?"
Not exactly. I think it's a case of substantial specific requirements being laid down by state and federal authorities such that the teachers simply do not have time to teach thinking. They must pour information from that firehose, and the kids must swallow all they can. Further, few teachers today even have a sense of the socratic approach, even if they had time. And, as has been noted, perhaps a majority of science teachers are pre-commited to a non-scientific approach to the nature of life. 'Tis a problem. |
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6 years ago :: Apr 08, 2012 - 8:14PM #166 | |
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6 years ago :: Apr 08, 2012 - 9:04PM #167 | |
Neat answer, farragut............ I taught junior high school English for awhile and expression did count. I loved teaching and evoking responses. My fave's were always the fast-tracked students. Not all teachers like them because they are reactive--appropriate in English classes. One year in a fast-tracked class the kids put plastic throw-up on my desk. I left it until just before the bell, watching all the nudging. I picked it up and asked in correct form : to whom does this belong? Told the claimer to get one that smelled next time. Total collapse........I loved those students.
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6 years ago :: Apr 08, 2012 - 10:17PM #168 | |
Dave - Just a Man in the Mountains.
There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there always has been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge. Isaac Asimov |
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6 years ago :: Apr 08, 2012 - 11:31PM #169 | |
Way to go, mm .........................
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6 years ago :: Apr 09, 2012 - 12:37AM #170 | |
A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side. Aristotle
Never discourage anyone...who continually makes progress, no matter how slow. Plato.. "A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives" Jackie Robinson |
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