For my classes, students read, think, discuss, "trouble-shoot," make
plans with co-workers, implement the plans and write a "report" about all
of that designed to educate or persuade a target audience.
Which of those "ways of learning" is it that you think is not pursued in
professional life...or any life for that matter?
And I also have to object to your use of the word "force." There is no
"force" used at UMC to my knowledge. Students are here voluntarily...
the only "force" is their desire to learn, get a degree and/or keep
their parents happy. I have nothing to do with instilling or "enforcing"
any of those motivations...they are all student-generated. So in what sense
am I as an instructor "forcing" them to learn in certain ways?
Darlene Sybert
http://www.missouri.edu/~c557506/index.htl
University of Missouri at Columbia (English)
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...I felt like some watcher of the skies
When a new planet swims into his ken;
Or like stout Cortez when with eagle eyes
He star'd at the Pacific--and all his men
Look'd at each other with a wild surmise__
Silent, upon a peak in Darien. -Jn Keats
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