Lee Burningham on wed 16 jul 08
Howdy Kelly, Clayart, et al.,.
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Kudos to the scribe! I have to reiterate, far less eloquently than =
Kelly, that education has been turned into a binge and purge process. =
The "best" academic students are now those that cram facts and figures =
into their short term memory banks in order to regurgitate the =
absolutely right word or answer in the absolutely right blank on the =
test. There are no creative thought processes taught any more due to the =
pressure to turn all the little darlings into productive math, science, =
history and english prodigies as defined by increasingly inflated test =
scores.
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teach mastery of skills, develop the eye, prod the imagination, give =
open ended assignments so the students define the projects in their own =
best interests
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kind of makes me want August to hurry up and get here so classes may =
begin anew.
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Lee Burningham
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Lee Love on thu 17 jul 08
On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 9:05 PM, Lee Burningham wrote:
> the test. There are no creative thought processes taught any more due to the
> pressure to turn all the little darlings into productive math, science, history
>and english prodigies as defined by increasingly inflated test scores.
>
You'd hope we could get back to the way practical skills have been
taught for most of our existence: the learner working next to
someone who has mastered that skill.
For most of our existence, we have made many of the things we use
in our daily lives. Human beings are meant to be makers and not
simply open mawed consumers.
--
Lee Love in Minneapolis
http://mashikopots.blogspot.com/
http://claycraft.blogspot.com/
"Let the beauty we love be what we do.
There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground." --Rumi
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