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Campy Happer
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 Posted: Wed Jul 16, 2008 10:17 pm Post subject: Re: Characteristics of bad and good teachers |
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This article must be about those who do not teach the sciences.
In the sciences, there is much less opinion and more to learn,
not just facts and methods, but the basic concepts which makes
much of them unnecessary.
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In my experience, all of the bad things do apply to
science teachers, for a strong reason: Some schools
insist on hiring science lecturers who have "real world"
experience, but this increases the risk of their having
"pro-corporate" viewpoints that ignore important issues
like risks to public health, outsourcing of jobs to overseas,
and the plight of Americans who lack health insurance.
I've had two science teachers who thought GM
food was A-OK and one who even boasted that
it was a good idea to let companies own parts
of the *human* genome. In short corporate flunkies bent
on world destruction have no place in academia,
nor in business for that matter. |
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Herman Rubin
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| Posted: Thu Jul 17, 2008 2:58 am Post subject: Re: Characteristics of bad and good teachers |
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In article <cd4dd6f9-24c2-4fee-b48d-2d170691c31c@z72g2000hsb.googlegroups.com>,
Campy Happer <campyhapper@yahoo.com> wrote:
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http://home.comcast.net/~plutarch/BadTeacher.html
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I agree and I disagree. College teachers are more likely
to push highly leftist points of view at the expense of
teaching that earning money is not even a good idea, and
that everyone is equal. They also make the mistake of
assuming that the students are prepared for the course,
and that no students already know almost the entire course.
This article must be about those who do not teach the sciences.
In the sciences, there is much less opinion and more to learn,
not just facts and methods, but the basic concepts which makes
much of them unnecessary.
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This address is for information only. I do not claim that these views
are those of the Statistics Department or of Purdue University.
Herman Rubin, Department of Statistics, Purdue University
hrubin@stat.purdue.edu Phone: (765)494-6054 FAX: (765)494-0558 |
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