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Re: [school-discuss] Quote From Neil Postman
On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 11:56:25PM +0000, Yishay Mor wrote:
> Each and every one of us can recall an experience of learning a
> subject from a teacher who hated it, didn't grasp it, or both.
> Its a disaster.
+1
It's the ability to actually love both the subject and children,
not even remotely the knowledge, which makes a person a teacher.
Knowledge does help but isn't nearly as critical, as fun an
observation as might seem.
> The greatest treasure a teacher can bestow his students is the
> ability to see the beauty of a subject, to fall in love with
> it. be it art, mathematics or history. The rest most students
> can do on their own.
Yishay, be my friend -- you told *exactly* the same words
I tell sometimes in train talks, or wherever!
> But here's an idea: instead of giving kids a few tons of books
> to chew through, give them a laptop, make it inexpensive,
> simple and robust, and make sure its connected. That way, they
> have access to all the knowledge on the web. They can even
...just drown. :-(
Information stream and the ability to prioritize, structurize,
and factor out the most probable and meaningful things are very
different. I know not that much people with decent capabilities
on self-education, even given ~99.7% education level in Ukraine.
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