The first difference I observed in contemporary classrooms from my own experience decades ago – after tattoos, cell phones, mp3 players, male students with earrings and females dressed in streetwalker chic, I mean – was their decentralized nature. The teacher is just another member of the mob. Seldom is he or she in charge, the object of attention and at least putative respect. Education, the acquisition of knowledge, is a dim, mirthless joke.
Tuesday, March 03, 2009
Boy, is this depressing ...
...`Difficult Achievements'.
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Fear not, Frank. I'm teaching again (at Temple), and teachers are still in charge. Still, there's nothing wrong with stimulating class discussion -- it's not "old school," but students do learn better when they're actively engaged.
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