Spirituality
09 Feb 08
09 Feb 08
I mean...do you really want people like Huckabee teaching your kids to do math? People like Bush teaching them about budgets?
"I didn't major in math," the former Arkansas governor told a cheering crowd at the Conservative Political Action Conference meeting. "I majored in miracles."
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080209/ap_on_el_pr/huckabee
09 Feb 08
Originally posted by AThousandYoungWhat we need are more teachers that can teach.
I mean...do you really want people like Huckabee teaching your kids to do math? People like Bush teaching them about budgets?
"I didn't major in math," the former Arkansas governor told a cheering crowd at the Conservative Political Action Conference meeting. "I majored in miracles."
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080209/ap_on_el_pr/huckabee
09 Feb 08
Originally posted by AThousandYoungThe idea of Huckabee as president makes me cry for the future.
I mean...do you really want people like Huckabee teaching your kids to do math? People like Bush teaching them about budgets?
"I didn't major in math," the former Arkansas governor told a cheering crowd at the Conservative Political Action Conference meeting. "I majored in miracles."
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080209/ap_on_el_pr/huckabee
09 Feb 08
Originally posted by josephwI actually agree, what we need aren't atheist teachers, we just need good teachers; teachers that can teach as their prime order of business and are good at encouraging kids and getting them to use their brains. If they can do that then those kids will make their own judgements about the world as educated thinking people, rather than indoctrinated ones, atheist or otherwise.
What we need are more teachers that can teach.
10 Feb 08
Originally posted by AThousandYoungI completely agree with your point.
I mean...do you really want people like Huckabee teaching your kids to do math? People like Bush teaching them about budgets?
"I didn't major in math," the former Arkansas governor told a cheering crowd at the Conservative Political Action Conference meeting. "I majored in miracles."
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080209/ap_on_el_pr/huckabee
Both Bush and Huckabee are creationists and are not to be trusted teaching; otherwise they're going to start telling us about how some God started the French Revolution because He was dissatisfied about how people were discovering new elemental structures and that He invented trigonometry to explain how evolution simply cannot happen . . . .
Personally, I completely disagree with that viewpoint, but given how illogical religion has been in the past, it wouldn't surprise me.
10 Feb 08
Originally posted by josephwNo, what we need is time and opportunity to teach, as opposed to everything being about passing standardized tests that were designed to fail half the test-takers to create an artificial bell curve. Hands-on, exploratory learning is the opposite of being able to fill in bubbles, and the latter is the focus. Students are required to learn more and more spoon-fed factoids to pass those stupid tests, as well as understand questions that are written at a much higher grade level than the test-takers. Want to improve teaching? Get rid of those tests and let teachers actually use the strategies that research says match students' learning styles and have the most long-term benefits.
What we need are more teachers that can teach.
10 Feb 08
Originally posted by ChronicLeakyYou're absolutely right! We home schooled our kids and they beat government school educated kids hands down across the board. In every way. At least within their social-economic and cultural peer group.
We need state involvement in education (both state-sponsored schools and laws making schooling compulsory) eliminated, is what we need.
10 Feb 08
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Originally posted by pawnhandlerThat would help. But public education is designed to produce workers, not thinkers.
No, what we need is time and opportunity to teach, as opposed to everything being about passing standardized tests that were designed to fail half the test-takers to create an artificial bell curve. Hands-on, exploratory learning is the opposite of being able to fill in bubbles, and the latter is the focus. Students are required to learn more and more ...[text shortened]... tegies that research says match students' learning styles and have the most long-term benefits.