Re: The school game
Darlene Sybert (c557506@SHOWME.MISSOURI.EDU)
Tue, 13 Aug 1996 23:29:41 -0500
On Tue, 13 Aug 1996, Charlie Hill wrote:
> whether or not students *want* to learn, etc. The fact is that the
> answer to all of these questions is, "it depends." I've had students who
> learned best if I just got out of their way--and other students who would
> be perfectly willing to go into a coma for three hours a week if they
> thought it would get them a decent grade. And I'm not even making
> generalizations about any individual student--the ones who slept through
> my class were probably exciting students for other kinds of teachers in
> other subjects. (Well, maybe some of them.)
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> Well, this is too long, and it's rambling, and I could spend an hour
> trying to make it more coherent. But I'll just stop here and send it and
> hope it makes some sense.
I think it makes more sense than almost anything else that has been
said. As Wm Blake said, One law for the lion and the ox is oppression.
>
Darlene Sybert
http://www.missouri.edu/~c557506/index.htl
University of Missouri at Columbia (English)
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