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To: greenspirit who wrote (16442)	1/12/1999 1:07:00 AM
From: Jacques Chitte	Read Replies (2) of 71178

>Does it give us an accurate description of his/her capabilities?< No - not reliably. Like you point out - there are those who work the system. (Cynically - those who don't work the system, either cuz they're dumb or disinclined deserve to get dinged.) >I would ask you to define "good"? < Oooh. Not sure I wanna bite that one off. My point was this: on a curve all we learn is who's better than a known percentage of his classmates. On the other hand, if we set a passing grade as 80% of a given set of material, we can make an arbitration of who "made the grade". I'm a big believer in rote memorization. It worked for me. I learned a lot of stuff in school. It didn't always make sense at the time. But later, as I matured in my peculiar late-bloomer fashion, the memorized scraps came together and formed patterns. Things of insight&intellectual beauty. If I hadn't been taken to task by demanding teachers in school - the pieces of the puzzle would not have been there. Instead I would have been left with the much smaller basis of facts/ideas if I had been free to learn what I liked. There is unavoidable toughness in the system. Kids who have intelligence in unconventional dimensions aren't served by it. But until convinced otherwise, I think that such people are outnumbered by folks who are classified by ability/inclination to an "acceptable" degree within a fact-based educational system. The three Rs. I do not require a school to teach my child according to her inner path of learning. I do require it to make available the skills and the literacy to go after a job in the real world. >challenging the assumptions of the subject matter or teacher. New knowledge is rarely gained through focusing on memorization< I think it's like handing a kid a loaded gun to teach "challenging the assumptions" too early. School is a place to impart the OLD knowledge. This must be mastered in order to recognize new knowledge as new. I see a lot of people flexing their muscles of privilege by challenging the assumptions of the perceived Status Quo. But I often see them do so in appalling ignorance. As a result, we see a lot of folks throwing the baby out with the bathwater and taking stands based more on "personal logic" than "the facts". F'rinstance, if more folks had been awake in a half-decent civics class, we could have more relevant (if no less passionate!) arguments about the ongoing shenanigans in our Federal Gov't.

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