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Time to erase erasers? Academic says 'instrument of the devil' should be removed from classrooms
Daily Mail ^ | May 27, 2015 | Harriet Crawford

Posted on 05/27/2015 7:34:41 AM PDT by rickmichaels

Erasers are an ‘instrument of the devil’ and should be banned from classrooms, an education expert has warned.

Guy Claxton, visiting professor of learning sciences at King’s College London, said rubbers wrongly encourage children to feel ashamed of their mistakes.

Youngsters need to be unafraid of making errors, to recognise and learn from them, the cognitive scientist added.

‘The eraser is an instrument of the devil because it perpetuates a culture of shame about error,’ he told the Daily Telegraph. ‘It’s a way of lying to the world, which says, “I didn’t make a mistake. I got it right first time.” That’s what happens when you can rub it out and replace it.

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1 posted on 05/27/2015 7:34:41 AM PDT by rickmichaels
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To: rickmichaels

please tell me this is satire


2 posted on 05/27/2015 7:35:51 AM PDT by tophat9000 (An Eye for an Eye, a Word for a Word...nothing more)
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To: rickmichaels

he believes in “De Debbil”?

LOL!


3 posted on 05/27/2015 7:36:24 AM PDT by left that other site (You shall know the Truth, and The Truth Shall Set You Free.)
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To: rickmichaels

If we’re going to ban erasers from the classrooms because they make people think ‘they got it right the first time, can we finally ban abortion?


4 posted on 05/27/2015 7:36:29 AM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: rickmichaels

Is this the same ass-hat who thinks reading to your children gives them an unfair advantage, or is it some other ass-hat?


5 posted on 05/27/2015 7:37:43 AM PDT by WayneS (Barack Obama makes Neville Chamberlin look like George Patton.)
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To: rickmichaels

If he thinks erasers are evil, I wonder what he thinks of white-out privilege.


6 posted on 05/27/2015 7:37:47 AM PDT by RoosterRedux (WSC: The truth is incontrovertible; malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end...)
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To: rickmichaels

If you can’t erase your mistake, it is there forever to remind you of your error . . . kinda like DemocRATS.


7 posted on 05/27/2015 7:38:14 AM PDT by RatRipper (Obama has made me the slave of sluggards.)
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To: rickmichaels

Political correctness has progressed to terminal.


8 posted on 05/27/2015 7:38:57 AM PDT by fwdude (The last time the GOP ran an "extremist," Reagan won 44 states.)
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To: rickmichaels

Pound sand, cognitive scientist


9 posted on 05/27/2015 7:39:22 AM PDT by lesko
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To: tophat9000

No, this is absolutely typical German mentality to mandate the eraser and use of it.

Go and look on any desk of a German employee....either a full-up eraser in view, or white-out (which they buy in bulk form).

I’m taking a German language class (this is for adults), which started this week. I’m the only American in the room...and I’ve already noted the eraser mentality on five occasions so far this week.

Me? I just take the pen....strike through the problem or issue and continue on. I think this mentality thing is mostly about having everything written as an important document, and being kept or on record....for years and years.


10 posted on 05/27/2015 7:39:54 AM PDT by pepsionice
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To: rickmichaels

idiot....the eraser gives you a second chance. It also corrects the computer in your brain. It’s how we learn.


11 posted on 05/27/2015 7:42:04 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: fwdude

Some people just need a good whuppin’.


12 posted on 05/27/2015 7:42:34 AM PDT by 17th Miss Regt
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To: rickmichaels

Tell that to Hillary and her use of email and servers.


13 posted on 05/27/2015 7:42:49 AM PDT by Proud2BeRight
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To: RoosterRedux

I wonder how many times he backspaced, cut, deleted, corrected, used spellchecker, etc. etc. on his computer while he wrote this drivel?

Its OK for him to provide a polished finished product, but not our children?

These people are nutz.


14 posted on 05/27/2015 7:43:55 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd (With Great Freedom comes Great Responsibility.)
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To: rickmichaels

“said rubbers wrongly encourage children to feel ashamed of their mistakes.”

There’s a joke in there somewhere I just can’t quite put my finger on it.

All kidding aside, is this where we are? Militant islamo terrorists want to take over the world and this idgit is worried about erasers on a pencils? Wow, out of touch doesn’t even begin to explain where this guy’s head is at.


15 posted on 05/27/2015 7:46:48 AM PDT by V_TWIN
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To: rickmichaels

Next, bet rid of the delete, backspace and undo keys on computers.


16 posted on 05/27/2015 7:47:30 AM PDT by Dr. Sivana (There is no salvation in politics)
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To: RoosterRedux

*ouch*


17 posted on 05/27/2015 7:48:50 AM PDT by null and void (In a world where lies and propaganda masquerade freely as truth, communication is everything.)
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To: V_TWIN

They are taking over Britain, and yes, they see them for what they are, just as we do, which is why it’s so easy.


18 posted on 05/27/2015 7:50:05 AM PDT by gr8eman (Don't waste your energy trying to understand commies. Use it to defeat them!)
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19 posted on 05/27/2015 8:04:39 AM PDT by al_c (Obama's standing in the world has fallen so much that Kenya now claims he was born in America.)
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To: rickmichaels

Claxton speaks only to justify his existence, in the same way politicians in DC crank out superfluous laws to appear busy and useful, when they are neither.


20 posted on 05/27/2015 8:05:37 AM PDT by W. (Animals are much stupider since Noah's Ark, because of inbreeding.--Oglaf)
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