[lbo-talk] The rape of education continues

[Carrol Cox]

Jan tells me the best math class she was ever in was an advanced class 
in high school taught by a teacher who did not know the subject. So the 
class had to take over and teach each other as well as the teacher. That 
would not do as a rule, obviously, but I think an education without a 
'seasoning' of really bad teachers is probably an incomplete, stunted 
education. Two of my college classes had a real incompetent instructor; 
they were quite wonderful for the interaction among the students that 
resulted. Again -- not very many such classes, but a few is probably a 
positive.

Carrol

On 6/1/2011 2:30 PM, Doug Henwood wrote:
> On Jun 1, 2011, at 3:22 PM, Chuck Grimes wrote:
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>> Moe's idea that you could teach math with a computer instead of a teacher really pissed me off. This so-called expert knows nothing about mathematics and nothing about teaching it at any level. He is a neocon ideologue. Like Doug said, bad cop v. good cop.
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> As his former colleague, Diane Ravitch, said, he knows nothing of the real world - he lives in pure theory. (He also has no idea how complicated the world of school choice is.) Which is funny, given that that's often the rap against leftists. Not in this case.
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> Doug
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