[riverdawg]

Computers should replace university professors first. They could certainly be programmed to spew the Leftist line just as 95% of professors do.”
“Actually I think that's true of most education. From grade school through college.

Get the best instructors, on tape. Then computerize it with quizzes and progress indicators.

There is absolutely no reason we need hundreds of thousands of math instructors, when computers could teach better, cleaner, consistently at the rate of the student, as opposed to the rate of the slowest student.”

The big fad in the early 1960s in math education was self-paced learning. My 8th grade algebra teacher gave us a workbook and told us to work the problems at our own pace. Most of us spent the class time daydreaming or passing notes back and forth. It took me several years of “hard knocks” in future conventional math classes to make up for that one disastrous class.

[DannyTN]

"The big fad in the early 1960s in math education was self-paced learning. My 8th grade algebra teacher gave us a workbook and told us to work the problems at our own pace. Most of us spent the class time daydreaming or passing notes back and forth. It took me several years of “hard knocks” in future conventional math classes to make up for that one disastrous class."

Your instructor didn't control it. In the 6th grade, our teacher took me and a friend and said, y'all are bored in the normal class, so sit here at this table and work these problems and as long as y'all work, you don't have to be part of the regular class. We worked through most of high school algebra and geometry in the 6th grade.

It was so successful, that by the end of the school year, he had 20 students working problems at their own pace.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

Computers should replace university professors first. They could certainly be programmed to spew the Leftist line just as 95% of professors do.”

Actually I think that's true of most education. From grade school through college.

Get the best instructors, on tape. Then computerize it with quizzes and progress indicators.

There is absolutely no reason we need hundreds of thousands of math instructors, when computers could teach better, cleaner, consistently at the rate of the student, as opposed to the rate of the slowest student.

The big fad in the early 1960s in math education was self-paced learning. My 8th grade algebra teacher gave us a workbook and told us to work the problems at our own pace. Most of us spent the class time daydreaming or passing notes back and forth. It took me several years of “hard knocks” in future conventional math classes to make up for that one disastrous class.

The future is now:

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