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"High school is a kind of secular church, a place of national rituals that mark stages of a young citizen's life." had to borrow this from the ou library...
— Jul 18, 2013 04:10PM
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Irene
is on page 205 of 272
"Run a school like a factory, and you will get uneven goods."
— Jul 23, 2013 01:07PM
Irene
is on page 159 of 272
"Working hard with a teacher, or any mentor, is masochistic. It is especially so for adolescents, whose vulnerability and inexperience are attenuated."
— Jul 22, 2013 02:35PM
Irene
is on page 121 of 272
"Decency denotes satisfaction of a widely understood and accepted standard and, as such, it is limited. going beyond such a threshold standard- that is, seeing schools on a course to turn out philosopher-kings or moral revolutionaries- is as repugnant as it would be impossible."
— Jul 22, 2013 01:14PM
Irene
is on page 104 of 272
keeps mentioning Jerome Bruner and John Dewey... and I know exactly what he's talking about!
— Jul 21, 2013 10:13PM
Irene
is on page 102 of 272
"Note cards, notebooks, flash cards, TelePrompTers, are all memory-easing devices." a shocking reminder that this book was written in 1984...
— Jul 21, 2013 10:03PM
Irene
is on page 56 of 272
"David Seeley sadly sums up his view: 'Education has become a massive process for producing passive minds.'"
— Jul 19, 2013 09:59PM
Irene
is on page 54 of 272
"The hungry student has critical radar, the ability to spot the inaccurate, meretricious, or inane. At his or her best, the hungry student is the constructively skeptical student."
— Jul 19, 2013 09:55PM
