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

To: Solon who wrote (51402)	6/18/2002 5:33:37 PM
From: The Philosopher	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 82486

I don't agree with you. If a student walks into a class and doesn't want to learn, I don't think it's the teacher's job to motivate them to learn. In fact, the time and energy spent in doing that are resources taken away from the students who DO want to learn. The student (with, if the child is young, parental guidance) has the basic responsibility of walking into the classroom ready and willing to learn. I know many teachers who spend so much time trying to motivate unmotivated kids that the learing of other kids suffers. Of course, this isn't to say that the teacher doesn't have the obligation to make the class sufficiently interesting to retain the interest of the students. It's too easy to "turn off" motivated students by really bad teaching. But the primary responsibility for being ready to and wanting to learn is and should be on the student, not the teacher.