Re: Apple II: Second Best Tech Product of All Time!

[Charlie Springer <RAM@regnirps.com>]

On Sat, 14 Apr 2007 16:26:46 -0700, aiiadict@gmail.com wrote
(in article <1176593206.897785.98680@o5g2000hsb.googlegroups.com>):

>   There is a problem with "working hard on education".  The US
> education
> system is governed by leaders.  stuperintendent...  governor...
> pRESIDENT.  They dictate what gets taught and what does not.  As I see
> it (being one of their students about 8 years ago) they teach nothing
> but how to be a sheep.  Go with the flow or you'll be outcast, put
> down, ridiculed.
> 
>   How do you change education, to get better leaders, when the leaders
> control education?  (that's a sick group of words if I've ever seen
> one.  "leaders control education"... yuck)...  catch 22

Are you saying cooperative group investigations and mathematics though 
discovery didn't work you for you ;-)

SAT test taker -- "Hey, where's my group!"

One of our math teachers was told this year not to teach the pythagorian 
theorem to high school sophomores because they were going to "discover it" 
for them selves near the end of their junior year. The same goes for concepts 
in linear algebra and trig. In other words, the average student is expected 
to discover things that took 2,500 years or more of the best minds on the 
planet.

BTW, we don't call them students anymore. They are to be called "learners". 
Kind of presumptuous isn't it? So now some are what I call "reluctant 
learners."

-- Charlie Springer
Yes, I left my physics career to help with the science and math teacher 
shortage. Now I know why there is one :-)