bringusingoodale
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"I've never let my schooling interfere with my education" --Mark Twain
"Education is too important to be left solely to educators." --Francis Keppel
"You don't have to think too hard when you talk to teachers." --Jerome David Salinger
There is a long tradition in America that views formal education in less than praiseworthy terms. At best, critics of the educational process heap lackadaisical, ironic invectives against education; at worse, cynicism runs the risk of turning into complete disregard and repudiation for public education and educators.
This outlook is not exclusive to America, however. When one looks at accomplished figures in other countries, they seldom point to their "schooling" as the principal factor for their achievements.
In this thread lets continue this discussion (bash teacher/educators allied with formal institutions).
I'll start:
I hated my middle school teachers because I knew, even at the young middle-school age, that all they wanted was a secure paycheck.
High school had some better teachers. But even here, for every decent teacher that actually inspired me to think and learn, there where countless others who could do little more than have us copy the daily agenda.
Let's just say my state school college education was dissapointing. (Though, admittedly , at this level there is more at play going on here).
What's sad, is that I at one point considered teaching. I took some fieldwork classes and quickly changed my mind.
"Education is too important to be left solely to educators." --Francis Keppel
"You don't have to think too hard when you talk to teachers." --Jerome David Salinger
There is a long tradition in America that views formal education in less than praiseworthy terms. At best, critics of the educational process heap lackadaisical, ironic invectives against education; at worse, cynicism runs the risk of turning into complete disregard and repudiation for public education and educators.
This outlook is not exclusive to America, however. When one looks at accomplished figures in other countries, they seldom point to their "schooling" as the principal factor for their achievements.
In this thread lets continue this discussion (bash teacher/educators allied with formal institutions).
I'll start:
I hated my middle school teachers because I knew, even at the young middle-school age, that all they wanted was a secure paycheck.
High school had some better teachers. But even here, for every decent teacher that actually inspired me to think and learn, there where countless others who could do little more than have us copy the daily agenda.
Let's just say my state school college education was dissapointing. (Though, admittedly , at this level there is more at play going on here).
What's sad, is that I at one point considered teaching. I took some fieldwork classes and quickly changed my mind.