Gabriel Sechan wrote:
Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2008 10:11:04 -0700
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Schooling funding debate ... again (Was Re: Wifi leeches (Was:
Multiple NAT layers))
A teacher doesn't need to be an expert on anything. They just need to
know (or learn) enough to teach it.
I know a class that was taught that way- my high school C++ class. Our
teacher was about 1/2 way through the book, and had taught basic there for 10
years. He taught the basic class, and honors geometry, fairly well.
The C++ class was a horrid flop. He didn't understand pointers, memory allocation, or OOP. I ended up teaching the class, with my limited 1 year of hobbyist experience. It went better once he started letting me run things, although I screwed everyone up on the list stuff at the back of the book(I had never seen a linked list before).
That was even worse that my own experience with a "professional" teacher
who was teaching BASIC. The first year the class was being taught, and
her first year teaching it, she knew that I knew the subject or I would
have gotten an F for every homework that I did not turn in. I was bored
in the class until I discovered something in the book that I had no
knowledge of, graphics. I started playing with that and it blossomed
into an extra-curricular project, which also consumed my class time. I
think the teacher just looked over my shoulder a few times and, seeing
the magnitude of the code I was working on, realized that I was *far*
ahead of the other students (and even herself).
She was an adequate teacher. She taught the class more than they wanted
to know. (And the best part was that she let me do my own thing. She
saw that I was independently doing my very own marathon and did not
encumber me to do the classwork. I think it was clear to her that what
I was doing encompassed and far exceeded anything she was teaching. And
she did nothing to stifle it. That's a *really* good teacher.)
You don't need to be a world class expert to teach a subject, but you do need a
decently deep understanding if you're going to be teaching someone. Knowing a
multiplication table is enough to teach it to someone else, but if you don't
know why its used and how to apply it as well, you can't truely teach it.
And that is when a home-schooling parent can ask other parents or
private schools with assistance for home-schoolers. But even if they
choose not to, I do not believe that anyone else should have the right
to interfere. Government's fingers are already *far* too reaching and
need to be chopped off.
This country became great on a small government that stayed well clear
of the affairs of the home for the most part. Our country has stagnated
more and more the larger and more reaching that our government has
become. And it's getting worse.
There is no need for certification, especially given that these
uncertified home-school parent-teachers are somehow giving a better
education than that of the certified "professionals". I'm sure that
exceptions can be found. But the exceptions are the only excuse that
can be found for those wanting to require certification.
How can I get Thunderbird to allow me the option:
"Mail-FollowUp-To:"?
I set the Reply-To: and point it to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> but
Sparky "corrects" it to <[email protected]>.
Thunderbird only gives me the options:
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