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Nov 17, 2009 20:43

Today is a good day for humility ( Read more... )

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keirancoon November 18 2009, 14:47:08 UTC
Interesting post to me, as it touches on both my current job (human services and second chances) and where I'll be this time next year (taking college courses). I appreciate many of your posts as they show, I think, that you don't just take things at face value. You process and analyze and work to refine your view of life.

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krinndnz November 18 2009, 15:31:06 UTC
Interesting post to me, as it touches on both my current job (human services and second chances) and where I'll be this time next year (taking college courses).
Hey, that's neat, I didn't know that about you! That sounds like material for some interesting blogging, privacy concerns permitting.

I appreciate many of your posts as they show, I think, that you don't just take things at face value. You process and analyze and work to refine your view of life.
Thank you, that's very nice to hear.

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silveradept November 18 2009, 18:42:56 UTC
This sounds like a good post about how students and teachers try to learn something and do well for themselves, despite the way the system is set up to actively discourage learning and to keep people who can't afford to spend lots of money away from making careers and jobs for themselves. I don't know if that was an intended subtext, but it certainly sounds like a great example of "education system needs overhaul."

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krinndnz November 18 2009, 19:10:33 UTC
I was raised a secular homeschooler, so pretty much every time I talk about schools,there's a subtext of "education system needs overhaul" whether I'm consciously thinking it or not. I don't usually go as far as you describe with my critique of the educational system. My critique is usually more along the John Gatto line of thinking: the system is currently geared to produce workers and consumers instead of citizens.

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silveradept November 18 2009, 20:01:42 UTC
Agreed on the Gatto line. I just wanted to know whether I was adding system subtext to a story that really was supposed to be about the people.

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lhexa December 28 2009, 01:42:21 UTC
Interesting stuff. I am familiar with the sorts of tests you mentioned, and as hard as they are, I really value the layered problems of high-level physics tests. Unfortunately, better tests come at some expense in time or money, which is why the smaller, upper-level classes will have the better tests. On the level of undergraduate education or certification exams, better tests will require more money from you, another blow to the ambitious but often poor community college students ( ... )

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