[lit-ideas] Re: The Education of a Swain

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>>>  There IS a role for authority and lecture and teacher-centered
> responsibility, EARLY ON in the process. Many of my students come to class
> waiting to be "informed" by the education machine "Dr. Wager." I use that
> early time to dis-abuse them of that notion, but I do so by lecture and by
> discipline and by taking full responsibility for their learning rather than
> throw it all on them at the start. THEN, when we've taken a look together at
> the nature of education, we can start all over and develop different roles
> in the classroom.
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There, my friends, is a real teacher. Honored to know him.
John


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John McCreery
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