Teachers are hampered by exactly the type of ignoramuses who insist on “standards” that the ignoramuses themselves do not understand, and could not enforce. It’s easy to set up well-meaning (if naive and ineffectual) criteria for other people, and through wishful thinking and some notion about “tradition” expect others to live up to your unreasonable expectations even as you pull the rug out from them and disrespect them. [...]
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How could I resist this? It’s from http://www.caglecartoons.com So, if you really want to progress, go to a library . Sit there with a notebook and a pencil or pen, and brainstorm. Try to honestly figure out what your weak-points in 9th grade were. Be specific. Don’t just say, “Math” for example. Figure out what part of math. Was it geometry? Proofs? Algebra, word problems, etc? [...] If you are “beyond school age” (which of course, you never are, because of adult ed. and more and more colleges accepting adult students) you may be in luck. You can learn math at your own pace, and from better sources than most schools offer. [...] Well, of course it’s not the problem, just one of many, but here it goes… Somehow along the way, people got the feeling that math is supposed to always be right, and that math teachers are supposed to know all the answers. Math has gotten the reputation of being an authoritarian science. I don’t think [...] photo by jonathan229
I haven’t been posting much. Sorry. Been in a kind of existential funk.
But today I had to include this. It is a link to an article that was in our local paper today, about a heinous phenomenon in a local school. Apparently, some second-graders have [...] Something’s been on my mind for a long time. It’s the whole “public school atmosphere” thing. I didn’t generally like school when I was a kid. I guess I went to pretty good schools, as far as schools go. I liked a lot of my teachers. I just didn’t like the “set-up.” I [...] (Continued from the previous three posts.) What if I Fail 9th Grade Math? (Part 1) What if I Fail 9th Grade Math? (Part 2) What if I Fail 9th Grade Math? (Part 3) The reader replied to my answer: thank you professor for answering all of my future qustions, but u never answered my old [...] |
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