Comments on: Should we be worried?

By: They’ve liked me, they’ve really liked me! « Bookworm Room

They’ve liked me, they’ve really liked me! « Bookworm Room — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 21:34:05 +0000

[...] the meaninglessness of education schools (especially since it paralleled nicely a point I made here). As for Wolf Howling, the title of the post tells you everything you need to know — and [...]

By: House of Eratosthenes

House of Eratosthenes — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 14:07:49 +0000

[...] Webloggin contributor Bookworm has been noticing something like this, and she came up with a quote from Dennis Prager, who I guess [...]

By: Webloggin - Blog Archive » They Can’t Read Very Well, But They Hate Carbon Emissions

Fri, 09 Nov 2007 17:22:16 +0000

[...] course, after spending hours perusing the appalling document that our local school board prepared — with the help of teachers — to establish teaching goals for the next few years, I’m slowly [...]

By: They can’t read very well, but they hate carbon emissions « Bookworm Room

Fri, 09 Nov 2007 06:14:46 +0000

[...] course, after spending hours perusing the appalling document that our local school board prepared — with the help of teachers — to establish teaching goals for the next few years, [...]

By: Webloggin - Blog Archive » Assuming Consensus

Webloggin - Blog Archive » Assuming Consensus — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 13:04:15 +0000

[...] her recommendation. As a matter of fact, I don’t have that feeling at all. Now that I’ve done some work reviewing materials that the school board generated, I’m quite convinced that they are dunderheads, and I’m very much not going to vote for an [...]

By: Assuming consensus « Bookworm Room

Assuming consensus « Bookworm Room — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 05:53:48 +0000

[...] As a matter of fact, I don’t have that feeling at all. Now that I’ve done some work reviewing materials that the school board generated, I’m quite convinced that they are dunderheads, and I’m very much not going to vote for [...]

By: Mike Devx

Mike Devx — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 10:24:09 +0000

Earl said,
“Tap is correct that the AVERAGE on that curve is lower than the average over most other majors, at least as measured by the Graduate Records Exam that one must take in order to go on to graduate school.”

I agree with this statement. An assistant principal at the high school I taught scored took the GRE the same year that I did (the year before I left teaching). He scored in the 7th percentile on the GRE. The bright teachers were not nearly as numerous as the dim bulbs.

Since I am an advocate of the “On The Other Hands”, I’d like to add that teaching requires not only mastery of the subject area. It also requires: The ability to communicate ideas effectively; an empathic ability to relate cleanly to group after group of students; the ability to manage groups effectively. I expect that at least a few of Book’s readers here encountered brilliant professors who were utter failures at the front of the lecture hall.

By: Bald-Headed Geek

Bald-Headed Geek — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 20:41:41 +0000

A Princess Bride reference! I love it………..

BHG

By: Webloggin - Blog Archive » American Schools Avoid Responsibility At Levels Both Large and Small

Tue, 30 Oct 2007 22:04:03 +0000

[...] I wrote about an administrative meeting I attended at our local public school, relating how everyone assured me that the teachers [...]

By: JJ

JJ — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 19:55:22 +0000

Can’t call to mind who said it:

“Anyone who can’t explain what they’re doing in five minutes to a six-year old child, probably isn’t doing anything.”

Might have a word or two wrong, but that’s the gist.