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To: nihil who wrote (34645)	4/13/1999 12:43:00 PM
From: Jacques Chitte	Read Replies (3) of 108807

>There is nothing in school that aims at the creation of new knowledge or the production of anything of any material usefulness or value.< Embedded in this remark is imho one of the cruelest and most distressing trends in modern educational thought. The idea that school should create new knowledge. This is a terrible thing and here is why I think so. School is a place to learn things. A place where we are given structured access to the great sea of facts, theories and opinions that constitute "knowledge". A schoolchild's proper attitude is to absorb and demonstrate proficiency in recognizing, remember ig and applying steadily more complex subject matter. The goal is to provide literacy. This meansd that those of us who went to school have a common base of experience against which we can calibrate the opinions and ideas with whut we play verbal foosball here. I see a departure from and a denigration of the time-honored process of inculcating descriptive, yea rote, knowledge. This should be done first to provide a playing field - any field at all, preferably "even" - on which to practice nascent skills of criticism and creativity. Teaching creativity is the task of college and perhaps of special advanced courses in high school. But first we need to establish and impart a standard of literacy. Verbal and geographic and arithmetic and historical literacy. A good teacher pursues a program that teaches a defined block of this overall syllabus. A great teacher recognizes when some students are hanging up on one or more of the particulars - and spends the extra time to sign the class off on that finished, defined block of "stuff". A bad teacher winks at the syllabus, then embarks on a personal program of boosting creativity or self-esteem or some such subjective academic amphetamine. Stimulating but not nutritious.

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