[edi581] Lighting fires
- From: "diana romeo" <dromeo@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: edi581@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2003 17:37:10 -0400
Hi Class,
We are all doing controversies for our in-class presentations, and being an
old time rabble rouser, I just thought I would throw out a thought that might
create a little freewheeling discussion during our breaks and free times.
I recently saw on one of our listserves a quote that has always been one of
my favorites:
"Teaching is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire", By W. B.
Yeats
Of course, in the real world of teaching, it is both! We have to impart the
curriculum. We have to bring the students up to competency. We have to put
something in the "pails".
However, if we can light the fires along the way, doesn't it help achieve
the above? Doesn't every good teacher have a secret desire to light, in at
least a few of their children, those deeply buried fires and bring them to the
surface in a blazing inferno? Isn't that why we try to do creative things like
Webquests?
Now for the controversy!
Looking at the directives and focus of our New York State Regents, how much
of it is focused on lighting fires, and how much is focused on filling pails?
Let me have your opinion. I haven't had a good argument in weeks. (Just
kidding, of course).
Carl
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