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I like the guidance counselor in freaks and geeks.

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Schools should be minimum 50 percent physical dducation.

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I submit that there is no teaching without a relationship, and grading interferes in various bad ways with the formation of a true relationship.

I say this from the perspective of one who was generally at the top of t he class

On the ot her hand if my kid had continued to get Cs at sdsu I would’ve cut him off.

There are ideals and then there’s reality.

Forgot where I learned that.

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Teachers shall henceforth question students and students shall defend their answers under impromptu questioning. Every interaction will be a “test” but there will be no tests per se.

Teachers “grading” shall no longer be numerical but shall be in the form of an essay, no less than 5000 words, describing students strengths weaknesses and suggestions for further study.

Or we could just stick with a b c and f.

There is no need for these letters. They are not “objective” or meaningful.

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I would like to farm cockroach es

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That said, if money were no object I’d go to uc riverside and study entomology. I am interested in bugs.

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The overarching emphasis on grades shows that our priority is hierarchy not edumucation.

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Better that note than a demand for restitution.

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Never let schooling interfere with your education.

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We learn from living, from reading, from thinking, questuoning, envisioning, calculating from observing; school has very limited opportunities to actually learn much. It’s too noisy and filled with cacaphony.

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I’ve had fun teachers, funny teachers, interestingcteachers, depressed teachers, knowledgeable teachers, but no one who has ever caused me to learn more than I get from a book.

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[quote=AN][quote=6packscaredy]Motivation? Curiosity?

Stifled during my schooling.

Critical thinking?

No.

Learning to survive in a rigid hierarchical oppressive system suffused with boredom and arbitrary authority figures?

Yes!

Which is not to say ghats not invalyable[/quote]So what you’re saying is you haven’t had a good teacher in your entire education experience. That’s a lot of bad teachers…[/quote]

I don’t think I said I never had a good teacher. Just that I would not know how to define good in this context.

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Dupe

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Motivation? Curiosity?

Stifled during my schooling.

Critical thinking?

No.

Learning to survive in a rigid hierarchical oppressive system suffused with boredom and arbitrary authority figures?

Yes!

Which is not to say ghats not invalyable

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No one can teach you the law. You must learn the law yourself.

I suppose a good teacher directs you toward better questions to think about.

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