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- From: snarf@access.digex.com (Sean Eustis)
- Newsgroups: alt.callahans
- Subject: Re: Spheres and Calculus [Re: Cyber (was Introduction was Eh?)]
- Date: 22 Dec 1992 04:27:09 GMT
- Organization: Express Access Online Communications, Greenbelt, MD USA
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- References: <1992Dec17.043200.4615@midway.uchicago.edu> <9212210021.AA12435@cs.columbia.edu> <105443@bu.edu>
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- In article <105443@bu.edu> mjmh@crsa.bu.edu (Michael J M Holmes) writes:
- >The purple guy raises his hand and hopes to be called on so that
- >he can participate in DMs and frood's conversation about the
- >American educational system.
- [stuff deleted}
- > The teacher
- >didn't like this either, again thinking I was a wise guy,
- >when I was just bored - and she would frequently send me
- >to sit in a chair in the hallway as punishment for talking
- >out of turn."
- [stuff deleted}
- In hindsight, its amazing that I retained a
- >love of learning after some very traumatic early experiences!"
-
-
- The Dreamweaver, hearing the subject of our education system, chirps in,"I
- know what you mean. My own experiences included much of the same. The
- cute story about 2nd grade I'll save till later.
-
-
- >"I don't blame most of my
- teachers, mainly the >system is set up very poorly. There is a
- >definite lack of flexibility that is sorely
- >needed, on levels from K through 12."
- >
- >(Education is a subject that can push my
- >buttons, too!)
- "Likewise, however, in the waking world I am changing some of these
- problems by being on the inside and becoming a teacher.
-
- "My story about the 2nd grade is one of a small boy who was told by his
- teacher,'If you don't finish your work, you don't get to go to reccess.'
- Seizing the opportunity to avoid playing the (at the time) ultra-rough
- game of RED-ROVER, the child promptly stopped working on the assingment.
-
- Slapping a dollar on the bar for an apple juice.
-
- "To teachers, forgive them, they're only human...or Kesh, or
- Gallifrean, or Elf, or...well, you get the idea."
- <Crash.>
- --
- In VR -- The Dreamweaver In RL -- Sean Eustis
- snarf@access.digex.com
- "God never closed a door without
- first opening another."
-