What Exactly Is A Great Education?

[4est_4est_Gump]

I will also add that we had to do math pencil and paper and then later by slide rule.

Now I taught pencil and paper at home, as soon as she was off to school, Princess had to buy a calculator and she's been glued to it ever since with a clearly observable loss of basic math skills through lack of practice.

 

[OjosMojo]

No, I'm not.

You just lied, dick.

Why is it so vital to your starving ego that it fantasizes it's anything different than the total wannabe you play here?

 

[OjosMojo]

What is it about all you wannabes who constantly can't help but constantly bring family members into your posts in unnecessary efforts to fluff yourselves, family members who have no business even being mentioned on an adult porn Board at all?

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Oh eyer.



There he goes again...

 

[warrior queen]

What is it about all you wannabes who constantly can't help but constantly bring family members into your posts in unnecessary efforts to fluff yourselves, family members who have no business even being mentioned on an adult porn Board at all?

You're getting all pissed off at the wrong person!
That was me

 

[Aella_]

I understand where eyer's coming from.
Because he's been demonized and part of the accusations. were unfair (he was pushed and insulted by certain shit-stirrers, and a few of his insults were an understandable reaction.)

But geez, eyer, why don't you limit yourself to just the shit-stirrers, instead of spreading it around?

((just lashing out))

 

[richard_daily]

It is increasingly the same way here. Students are now consumers, and pupils must get their grades or there is hell to pay - not by them, of course, but by their teachers. Only in the independent sector, which is free from government interference and curricular changes, can real 'whole-child' education continue, connected, however tenuously, to the thread begun in Plato's Academy almost 2.500 years ago. Which means that those already outrageously favoured by fortune from birth have those privileges further entrenched with every day at school.

That's the "pay to play" model, and it's the fallout of rampant unfettered capitalism. I don't see any difference in independent sectors, but that may because there really isn't an "independent" sector here in the US. Private institutions are still for-profit, and the bottom line is still the focus for most educational institutions at this point and time.

Any moves to get away from that business model for education are vehemently opposed, and as we move more and more into the private/public cooperations (charter schools, etc), we see less accountability, lower societal value, and lower test scores.

The system needs a complete overhaul, but unfortunately, most reforms have taken things in the wrong direction, in my opinion.

 

[OjosMojo]

Oh eyer.



There he goes again...

You bring your family members to this adult Board who have no business being mentioned here at all, and then whine like the cunt you are when another one of your bozo pals uses them against you.

Is your Facebook broke?

Your Twitter not good enough anymore for all that gossiping you got to do, gertrude?

Why is it you're not man enough just to shut the fuck up about those who shouldn't be talked about here in the first place?

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

stfu you dysfunctional piece of shit. I didn't get you banned, you got you banned.


Your hate must keep you warm at night.


If I would have said kids use calculators now, the immediate challenge would be, how the fuck do you know?

Because I have a kid. I'm going to mention it from time to time. If you and your buddy Throb act out on it, I'll report you because it is not forbidden to mention family whereas the areas that you keep delving into are. Personally, I think that you are both some really sick puppies.

 

[Sean]

And Eeyore manages to make yet another thread about paedophilia.

 

[Sean Renaud]

I will also add that we had to do math pencil and paper and then later by slide rule.

Now I taught pencil and paper at home, as soon as she was off to school, Princess had to buy a calculator and she's been glued to it ever since with a clearly observable loss of basic math skills through lack of practice.

Meh, if you are in a situation where you can't use a calculator the math has stopped being important some time ago.

 

[OjosMojo]

blah, blah, blah...blah.

Just quit bringing people to this adult Board as your fucking insecure prop toys who aren't old enough to post for themselves.

 

[OjosMojo]

And Eeyore manages to make yet another thread about...

Most appropriate thread for you to show you don't know what a simple word means, seaniepoo, but one you just love to use anyway you can, nonetheless.

Reported.

 

[Sean]

Most appropriate thread for you to show you don't know what a simple word means, seaniepoo, but one you just love to use anyway you can, nonetheless.

Reported.

You're a sick, obsessive fuck.

 

[warrior queen]

Just quit bringing people to this adult Board as your fucking insecure prop toys who aren't old enough to post for themselves.

See?
I have children too, so I MUST be 4est today

 

[OjosMojo]

You're a sick, obsessive fuck.

Project it, seaniepoo, project it.

 

[BotanyBoy]

https://fanart.tv/fanart/music/0febdcf7-4e1f-4661-9493-b40427de2c13/albumcover/wu-tang-forever-4f7b3e6c5b7e6.jpg

 

[Aella_]

The last few posts topped by BotanyBoy's pic.

 

[RoryN]

The GB has more butthurt threads about education from people who didn't go to college than any forum on the interwebs.

 

[Aella_]

Derp!

What a clown …. Does he think He comes across as an Einstein?

 

[Miasorrow]

The GB has more butthurt threads about education from people who didn't go to college than any forum on the interwebs.

Naturally, many "uneducated" people went to college and beyond.

One can create their own knowledge, with or without the institutions.

 

[Miasorrow]

An education is general, not specific. It teaches an ability to be as fully human as possible...
Our strength has always been, and must continue to be, in our ability to question and to connect, to discriminate and judge. .

Exactly.

So much of a great teacher is one that "labels" content so it appears to students as useful, rather than something they must learn "because the teacher said so".

We are teaching content instead of students.

Great Teachers Don't Teach.

 

[Miasorrow]

http://45.media.tumblr.com/9f5d4cc5316735fb0398b4cf4b111610/tumblr_n4dbsaAe8x1qhxzqeo1_1280.gif

 

[NOIRTRASH]

All that really matters in life is getting the outcome/result you want. So outcomes shape my education. I don't fuck around with what I don't want.

 

[Adjudicator]

A great education not only allows different opinions, but encourages discussion over them, not consensus. A great education focuses on the critical thinking skills and not memorizing content. Teachers are facilitators, not indoctrinators.