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- From: bs@gauss.mitre.org (Robert D. Silverman)
- Subject: Re: What can we have for an educational system?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.004734.20143@linus.mitre.org>
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- References: <1992Nov11.210715.18348@eng.umd.edu> <1992Nov15.122659.129397@zeus.calpoly.edu> <BxrGCs.4tp@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>
- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 00:47:34 GMT
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- In article <BxrGCs.4tp@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> hrubin@pop.stat.purdue.edu (Herman Rubin) writes:
- :In article <1992Nov15.122659.129397@zeus.calpoly.edu> mhorning@zeus.calpoly.edu (Mark E. Horning (Captain Neutrino)) writes:
- :>clin@eng.umd.edu (Charles Lin) states
- :
- :>>In article <ARA.92Nov11034458@camelot.ai.mit.edu>, ara@zurich.ai.mit.edu (Allan Adler) writes:
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- :>>>As I have pointed out on other occasions, if they would improve the
- :>>>working conditions, they could have PhD's teaching in the public schools.
- :>>>I don't mean improve them a little. I mean offer working conditions that
- :>>>would make a PhD happy and the glut of unemployed and underemployed
- :>>>PhD's will beat down the doors of the schools trying to get in.
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- Actually, at least in my experience, the conditions that would make
- most PhD's happy are essentially impossible to obtain. Nothing the
- schools or school systems could do would provide what they want.
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- What they want of course is motivated students and students who
- are *interested* in learning. This is the responsibility of parents.
- Currently, cultural conditions in the U.S. are such that most people
- do not place a high value on education. The result? Students who
- don't give a shit.
- --
- Bob Silverman
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