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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank
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To: J. C. Dithers who wrote (51323)6/18/2002 12:21:50 PM
From: Solon  Read Replies (2) of 82486
 
"I'm feeling dense this morning*. Meaning what?"

You had made the assertion: "It is up to the student to realize what a golden opportunity they have been given, and to make the most of it."

This seemed to be placing the entire onus for choosing what is valuable in life upon their inexperienced and untutored psyches. It seemed odd to me that one should be exalting the virtues of teaching, while at the same time undermining that position (that important things may indeed be taught) by dint of a flippancy. Awareness that they have a "golden opportunity" would appear to be (by the characterization) an awareness which could be very advantageous. Your desire to withhold the communication of this awareness from the student seemed incongruous given that it was the type of learning or awareness which you apparently valued yourself. Yet the teacher is to offer no guidance in this regard, if I am to correctly understand your remark in the context of your previous posts.

Perhaps you will clarify if I have misunderstood your position. I asure you, I do not wish to misrepresent your words in any way. Have you been asserting over several posts, that teachers ought not to guide, steer, or motivate their charges in ways which assist them in an awareness of the golden opportunities which call to them? But that this awareness of golden opportunities must be left (for some as yet unexplained reason) to the uninfluenced, but indwelling, inclination of the student?
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