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Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Education really is an initiation. You start of with baby steps and gradually "level up" so to speak. For tertiary education this really is apparent, and what I've read from what has been posted within the last 24 hours reiterates it. Although I personally could do without the night-time 'exams' involving hungry crocodiles and the Egyptian pyramids. If you pass, you live; you fail...well you hope reincarnation exists but by then you're croc food.

Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Which generally agrees with my (brief) memory of what I read on the issue. Please note that I haven't read the whole book. From what I remember the concept of the trivium, the beginnings of the liberal arts was to teach the tools of learning -- so people learn how to learn. IT would be nice for teachers to learn how to teach so students can learn how to learn.

Re: Longest Running Thread EVER This would be a issue of pedagogy of physics who can teach physics best a physicist or an educator, right? or to restate it, the issue is not about physics/physics curriculum but the teaching of it to those not versed with it?

Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Thanks. That is a very well rounded course, though does your "BSIS - 320. Systems Analysis and Design" unit include Business Process Reengineering? And have you any experience with Soft Systems Methodology? This to me is the essence of teaching. If the student doesn't grasp what is being taught then the educator has failed in teaching the student. In a very real way the student has to own the material and make it theirs for them to successfully taught. Once that happens the lesson is learned. Rant: And also each student learns at their own rate, which is one reason I find standardised use of end of teaching-period exams so useless. Surely there has to another way to assess that the student has learned the material. And surely the lecturer knows which students have learnt it and which haven't?

Re: The Last Word Ah, thanks. and thought they were something like that.

Re: The Non Sequitor Thread From Smallville Clark, if this is Tess gone rogue then Lois and Perry are about to get buried...and I don't mean on page ten.

Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Just to see what it is about.

Re: Longest Running Thread EVER I came across this just a moment ago: I think this is a different translation:

Re: The Last Word but first you know brain bleach.

Re: The Last Word you can.

Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Do you have any more info one the course? I wouldn't mind taking a look at it. (serial looker-up-er of uni courses, particularly Oxford uni)

Re: "Neat" Pictures I've got the Ing tag disabled, so I just click the links. Page loads faster that way.

Re: Longest Running Thread EVER That sounds very interesting. Good luck, and all the best with it.

Re: What Have You Watched Recently? Nearly finished watching Back To You.

Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Thanks for your 'inside info'. That means a lot to me. It's nice that I'm on the right track so to speak, but can see your point about turning a profit etc. In what course will you graduate in? I just finished a Bachelor of IT/Bachelor of Business (major was accounting). I'm still waiting for the official piece of paper saying the University agrees with me.

Re: The Non Sequitor Thread from Smallville Green Arrow: Yeah, well, I didn't know Uncle Sam was into drugs and bondage. Kind of gives a whole new meaning to the "I Want You" posters, doesn't it?

Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Hi RPMiller. How have you been? ou have a good point regarding the quality of the teachers. But to me it is more than that. I reckon it is the education system itself. As I see it we have two: 1) the better education system that is reserved for the private/preparatory students of the rich people that gives both a quality education with broadness and depth; and 2) the non-private/prep school that teaches just enough to produce people who can fulfil adequately, the functions of state. Or to put it in more simplistic terms, the first one is there for the 'ruling elite'/establishment and the second is there for their 'subjects'. The first one gives 'them' the necessary education of the classical education concept of the liberal arts 'free man' so they can provide the overall guidance and direction for society and the second gives sufficient education for a profession, trade etc. take two: The goal of the education system of the private/preparatory schools is to produce Free Men -- to impart an education of breadth and depth. The goal of the non private/prep schools is twofold, 1) it to impart sufficient education required for an art/trade or profession 2) to ensure they remain 'slaves of the state' (ie a non-liberating education -- the 'education proper to a slave'). This helps fulfil the functions of The State*. Wikipedia says that the idea of paideia has continued in the concept of an 'English Gentlemen'. Education curriculum from a Liberal arts college. This is what I mean when I use the words "breadth and depth of a private/prep school style education. *if you want to know what I mean by this, just ask.

Re: What Have You Watched Recently? You were on The Sheep Channel. honest.

Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Not enough. We still have dumb people.

Re: The Last Word and charge interest on the overdue books.

Re: The Last Word so people will remain silent??

Re: What Have You Watched Recently? So you gonna what Smallville next?

Re: A Thread for Random Musings Remy Zero's "Save Me" is an awesome song and very appropriate for Smallville.

Re: The Last Word Air force?

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