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To: Who, me? who wrote (14179)11/10/1998 2:08:00 PM
From: jbe  Read Replies (1) of 67261
 
RE: Outcome-Based Education

WhoMe, you inspired me to run a web search on "outcome-based education". And after a cursory look at the materials I turned up, I am inclined to agree with you on this point. (Can you imagine that!)

Furthermore, OBE seems to me to be only a new term for an old concept, "progressive education." It's very strange: don't educators remember anything? We keep on fighting the same battles over and over again. At least once in a decade, somebody comes up with a variant on "progressive education", and touts it as something completely new..

I guess the difference this time is that "progressive education" is moving from private schools into public schools.

Years ago, I attended an ultra-progressive private boarding school (appopriately named "Manumit") for one school year. We had to call the teachers "uncle" or "aunt". The headmaster was "Uncle Billy." Kids climbed out of the classroom windows when they were bored with class. The only thing that was compulsory was square-dancing (ugh!). I was ostracized on practically my first day because I refused to "share" the answers on an American History test. (I don't know why the teachers bothered to give tests at all, since they didn't count for anything.) To be fair, students were good at things like writing fiery social-conscious essays. But they knew no science or math at all. I remember taking a test on fractions (this was the eighth grade), finishing it, and hearing a friend of mine (two years older!) exclaim that I must be a "genius." A "genius"? Because I could do fractions? Manumit was a very interesting experience, but anyone who spent more than a year there was doomed educationally.

jbe
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