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- From: hrubin@pop.stat.purdue.edu (Herman Rubin)
- Subject: Re: What can we have for an educational system?
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- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 17:46:09 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov16.140906.29796@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca> mroussel@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca (Marc Roussel) writes:
- >In article <BxsELH.65C@quake.sylmar.ca.us> brian@quake.sylmar.ca.us
- >(Brian K. Yoder) writes:
- >>OK, so how do you explain the bad reputations teachers have among people
- >>who don't have kids in school (like myself)? Has it occurred to you that
- >>such bad reputations might be JUSTIFIED?
-
- > Maybe it is, but the problem can't possibly be that simple. There
- >are so many parents who send their children to school so ill-prepared
- >and ill-disposed to learn that even a competent teacher could do little
- >but keep order and dispense pablum. North Americans (sadly, often even
- >educated ones) don't have the right attitude to schooling and they pass
- >these attitudes on to their children. If the kids don't want to be
- >there because their parents haven't given them reason to believe that
- >there is a purpose to their presence in school, what exactly can a
- >teacher do?
- > I think that if you fix the parents, the teachers will fall into
- >line. Unfortunately, that's an almost impossible task.
-
- There is much in what you say, but the sad fact is that far too many of
- the teachers really are that bad. This even happens in a community like
- mine, which is substantially faculty and professional people.
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- Herman Rubin, Dept. of Statistics, Purdue Univ., West Lafayette IN47907-1399
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