Comment Educated Educators!? (Score 2, Interesting) 871
If the members of boards of education were, in fact, educated people themselves much of this nonsense would be avoided! Until then I may be a good thing that they don't try to teach anything important so as not to wind up vulgarizing and trivializing it. Evolution as a sound-bite about Darwin!
In my daughter's so-called 'Geometry' class in high school, planar forms were 'studied'. Formulas were memorized. The concepts of doing proofs and logical deduction or formal systems were not mentioned. When I brought this up to the teacher ( a sports coach) he didn't know what I was talking about.
Education as vocational school doesn't need this stuff, and besides isn't thinking a little suspect in America anyway these days?
In my daughter's so-called 'Geometry' class in high school, planar forms were 'studied'. Formulas were memorized. The concepts of doing proofs and logical deduction or formal systems were not mentioned. When I brought this up to the teacher ( a sports coach) he didn't know what I was talking about.
Education as vocational school doesn't need this stuff, and besides isn't thinking a little suspect in America anyway these days?
