fnxtr
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| Quote (midwifetoad @ Mar. 04 2010,06:48) | | Quote | Yet we do it. I would like to see the day were children could be in a classroom and openly debate on many subjects with a proficient teacher. I think it would sharpen there critical thinking capability and enforce what they have learned. I don't know your views on this but it was a successful model in the past.
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I'm trying to figure out when this utopia existed. It certainly didn't exist in 1950, when I started school, not in 1915, when my parents started school. |
This happened in my Eng. 12 class (1978), but not in intro calculus (uh... several years later).
Mr. Wagner was all about getting kids excited about thinking about things. Skewed the bell curve.
Dr. Bullen (tenured? Probably but not certainly) droned monotonously from the book his colleague had written (clumsily) that same year. Lots of us failed that course.
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