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[Egon]

Re: Truth

Ah Truth????

People who read well and quickly pay no attention to those quigly faces that appear on many posts. They only pick out the important factors and can infer those quigly faces by conotation.

Now my other perception is that you are quite willing to move from your current residence to a tent so a person who has resided in your country from time immorial can occupy it.

Egon

 

[Phred]

Re: open-mindedness

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Except surely you must understand that pure fact is not possible outside of maybe math and Mr. Spock

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What in the world do you teach?

Lets see: Netwons laws a matter of opnion?
How many stomachs does a cow have is a matter of opinion?
Students with out verbs in their sentences might be good english after all?
In oregon maybe george washington was not the first president after all?

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On the other hand, how in the world do you eliminate the presentation of "opinions" when teaching history, psychology, sociology, or that good old stuff we used to call civics?

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So history is now a matter of opinion?
How much psychology and sociology does a 17 year old that can't read write or solve basic algebra problems actually take?


Flint and chuck you have me even more concerned than when we began this "talk".

All I know is that I have students that come to me after high school and their math skills are poor at best and the writting is terrible. Maybe thats because is all a matter of opinioin and I am just old fashion thinking that a particular differential equation has a unique answer and that complete sentence are the way to go.....

Silly me what was I thinking....


Fred

 

[PitbullMidwest]

Re: Truth

<font color=blue>...the instructing officer described the Battle of the Bulge as the largest tank battle of the war. When I asked him about the Battle of Leningrad, he modified his description to be the largest tank battle of the war involving U.S. forces. </font color=blue>

The largest tank battle of WWII was at Kursk, not Lenningrad, but your point is still valid.

 

[Wingnut]

Re: open-mindedness

Dan,
sorry ... I always have to remind myself that American schools are, in fact, no Canadian schools. I have never been in an active American public classroom so my biased opinions on that topic should definitely be taken with a very large scoop of salt.
I guess what I was trying to say was that - based on secondhand information that I've seen since I arrived in Michigan and started reading American newspapers and listening to/viewing American media - the predilication of "teaching" the views of the person at the front of the room has trickled down from the universities to grade schools.
I never have thought that <font color=blue>every</font color=blue> teacher was like that ... since <font color=blue>every</font color=blue> one of us is different. I've also been reminded, frequently, by some friends who are teachers in Texas that not all teachers in the US are members of NEA or are even allowed to be.
I apologize for the tone of my last post ... I always choke on this issue since I'm in the "taxation without representation" class. Never had kids but always paid taxes to educate other's kids ... definitely taints my perception. And I did some interviewing last week .... had to waste hours of my time dealing with some of the end-products of the educational system. I do NOT envy you, sir, and wouldn't trade places with you on a bet!

pete

lesson for today: how to turn a copied paste blue .... after you cut and paste, simply add the html tag for color before and after the post. You can find it in the "markup in your posts" tag at the top of the post screen ... but, [bluex] (without the x) at the front and [/bluex] (without the x) at the end. Hope that helps.

 

[Wingnut]

Re: Truth

<font color=blue>time immorial</font color=blue>
I assume you mean "forever"?
Did you have some education, that I didn't, that proves the previous residents didn't move here from elsewhere and drive off or slay the previous residents? As they did? And the ones before them?
Would this person be willing to fairly compensate me? If so, give me their name, I'm ready to sell.

 

[Chuck52]

Re: Truth

Thanks for the correction, PitBull. I don't remember military history as being covered much in regular history courses, which is yet another plug, I guess, for including different views.

Chuck