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To: cnyndwllr who wrote (194145)	1/26/2007 5:17:51 PM
From: Suma	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 793964

Ed I have to disagree with you that all PH.D's are poor teachers .. I know some who were great in researching and writing dissertations. They know their subject but damn they cannot teach. They are boring. I have a cousin who was head of the nursing dept. at a distinguished Southern College. She got her credentials at Yale. I cannot bear to talk to her. She has developed this deep Southern drawl, talk so slowly and in monotone.She knows her subject but teaching it.. I would fall asleep in her class. There were so many teachers in my high school... where I taught who were just the greatest. One could sit in on their class and be entertained. They were alive, vital and challenged the students to THINK... They would take different positions on issues and it would be difficult to ascertain what THEIR Own thinking on the subject was. I have had good and bad. You must have too as look what you have done with your life. Who is responsible. Go back to those elementary teachers who started you reading.... or those who influenced you to get really interested in a subject. Don't lump all teachers, whether they have a Ph.D or not or just a Masters Degree as was necessary in the school where I taught.... as dumb or poor in teaching. It is always the person. AND although I cannot say I had the greatest teachers in the world...... I know a lot of wonderful marvelous teachers, many of whom are now dead... That's what happens when one reaches my age. Everyone is leaving...

To: cnyndwllr who wrote (194145)	1/31/2007 5:18:34 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Respond to of 793964

Ed, I've had your post sitting waiting for me to come up with something. But time's gone by and I didn't really know what I wanted to say and now I give up on the subject, for now. Which is not to say I agree with your ideas totally [just that I've run out of steam on it]. This bit seems quite Maoistic Cultural Revolution style = send all the intellectuals to the fields for "re-education" and let the Red Guards run the show: <I'd say that you were right in proposing that we try to THINK of a better way to train up people for life. The first step would be to get all the educators out of the way. You know who they are, they have Dr. in front of their names, they were "really smart" in school, they have high IQs and they're messing things up really badly because they're dumber than posts.> Mqurice