"But, in truth, almost all of us know them only in the most disengaged, distant, disconnected, abstract, generalized, stereotypical, or anonymous way. This means we usually do not know them at all; we don't give a face or name to learning; everyone is a blur; we don't see the stories of individuals with varied personalities and assorted experiences and different talents, subject to diverse and contesting social, personal, and family pressures, torn by disrupting forces of transformation; we have only the dimmest understanding of what each of these people are like much less what they are going through; and we usually aren't drawn deeply below the surface into the people business of education. It all too often makes the entire process none too real."
I thought you were talking about how students view psychology instructors... :) Jim Matiya Florida Gulf Coast University jmat...@fgcu.edu > From: lschm...@valdosta.edu > To: tips@fsulist.frostburg.edu > Subject: [tips] Random Thought: A Quickie On Educational Ignorance > Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2010 07:21:09 -0400 > > I was reading student journals this early morning. As I read of what seemed > like > a debilitating epidemic of manic depression plaguing our campus as the > semester comes to a > harried close, something struck me. How often do we think, do we loudly > assert, that we > know students. But, in truth, almost all of us know them only in the most > disengaged, > distant, disconnected, abstract, generalized, stereotypical, or anonymous > way. This means > we usually do not know them at all; we don't give a face or name to learning; > everyone is > a blur; we don't see the stories of individuals with varied personalities and > assorted > experiences and different talents, subject to diverse and contesting social, > personal, and > family pressures, torn by disrupting forces of transformation; we have only > the dimmest > understanding of what each of these people are like much less what they are > going through; > and we usually aren't drawn deeply below the surface into the people business > of > education. It all too often makes the entire process none too real. > > Make it a good day. > > --Louis-- > > > Louis Schmier http://www.therandomthoughts.com > Department of History > http://www.therandomthoughts.edublogs.org > Valdosta State University > Valdosta, Georgia 31698 /\ /\ /\ /\ > (229-333-5947) /^\\/ \/ \ /\/\__/\ \/\ > / \/ \_ \/ / > \/ /\/ > \ /\ > //\/\/ /\ > \__/__/_/\_\ \_/__\ > /\"If you want to climb > mountains,\ /\ > _ / \ don't practice on mole > hills" - > > > --- > You are currently subscribed to tips as: jmat...@hotmail.com. > To unsubscribe click here: > http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13283.28aec02f231f4c4baa9a4a58ae139710&n=T&l=tips&o=2020 > or send a blank email to > leave-2020-13283.28aec02f231f4c4baa9a4a58ae139...@fsulist.frostburg.edu --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@jab.org. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=2026 or send a blank email to leave-2026-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
