Brad McCormick wrote: > Quoting Christoph Reuss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
...obviously quoting Luciana Bohne. I thought I'd better quote it from the horse's mouth, so Ray and Lawry can't accuse me of being too far away to make a correct assessment. > Just to clarify: You aren't implying that the internal > totalitarianism of traditional education, which makes the > student learn lots of "stuff" and then get punitively > graded on how much of that "stuff" he (or sometimes she...) > has memorized and can regurgitate in a test booklet, > was good, are you? That's a different question (although not entirely "orthogonal" to the question addressed in the article). This can't explain the US problem, because this "traditional" education is being applied in other countries too (as you say, it is "internal", or inherent, to traditional edu). The "traditional" way of feeding information may not teach pupils to be autodidacts, but the things learned in this process can be valuable as a foundation to build upon for those who want to become autodidacts. Starting from virtually nothing (like most Americans), it is very hard or even impossible to become autodidacts, or worse, it can lead to absurd results of pseudo-knowledge. E.g. the many Americans who have their entire "knowledge" on WW2 from Hollywood movies. Chris _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://scribe.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework
