This is very insightful, folks.
“Teaching to the test and a culturally indoctrinated fear of failure leaves many students confused (and therefore angry) when confronted with thinking.”
I should print this out and post it on my door.
This text is also very important.
#OccupyHE.
Axé.
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Here’s something about transcending good and evil. When I do a speech first thing in the morning, I can better capture my ideas out of the unconscious memory banks, but the words are a bit less forthcoming. Nonetheless:
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What is “teaching to the test”?
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Okay, I know it now! That’s a ridculous approach,
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teaching_to_the_test
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The link labelled “this text” does not work. It fails in a way I have never before seen.
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I have experienced this anger too and have been really surprised by it. It seems that thinking for themselves feels to students like walking on thin ice where they might break in anytime. So they prefer not to think and instead either start a frantic activity of doing something totally pointless or become passive and discouraged.
If only we could have a culture which is not so afraid of failure, and where creativity in all parts of life would be seen as positive and important.
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