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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: J. C. Dithers who wrote (51261)	6/17/2002 5:14:15 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

I think a "competitive environment" means that only those students who would have succeeded without an instructor will get the A's I do not think that is what education is about. To really prepare students it is better to teach them how to do A work, how to find it within themselves, than decide they will not be the excellent A types. It is not enough to just say- "You there, you do not find this amorphous A work within yourself, you are a C young man (or woman)" I say that as an excellent A type myself. It is not logical for an A to be dependent upon your genetics and not upon instruction. If we are giving it just to students who have all these natural abilities, than why not just give those students with those abilities the A's and waste no time having anyone go through the motions? When you are a student I think you can expect a teacher to teach you, and part of teaching is telling the student in some way what your expectations are. Bosses who do not do that are going to fail. If you are preparing students to be bosses, than you should model what a good boss is, and a good boss tells you what he or she expects. A bad boss expects you to guess.