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To: JRandomFreeper
I have awards for teaching, FRiend, from both peer faculty members and my students. So don't presume to condescend to me about how "hard teaching is."

If you challenge people, they will respond. If you comfort them in their ignorance, they'll get stupider. And that is exactly what you're encouraging, and what is happening.

115 posted on 03/18/2015 5:21:26 PM PDT by FredZarguna (O, the tears of unfathomable sadness. Yummy. Yummy.)
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To: FredZarguna
No. I am saying you have to actually work and learn that you have to teach them FROM WHERE THEY ARE, not from where you want them to be.

You, and many rigidists don't want to hear how difficult it really is. You want to sit on your hands and insist they come up to your level before they learn.

That's the progressive way of teaching that has been taught since Dewey. Wring your hands and complain, or make a difference. I don't see many conservatives actually making a difference.

If you aren't getting out your message, the message isn't always wrong, you aren't always wrong, and the intended ignorant audience isn't wrong, it's the way they have been taught.

Teach them.

You can't do that by insisting that you have to wait for them to come up to your level. That invites the ignorant sloth to expand and take over.

The argument over englishes has gone on for hundreds of years, and will.

/johnny

116 posted on 03/18/2015 5:30:03 PM PDT by JRandomFreeper (gone Galt)
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