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- From: andy@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Andrew Hackard)
- Newsgroups: sci.math,sci.physics,sci.astro,sci.bio,sci.chem,misc.education
- Subject: Re: Is Math Hard?
- Message-ID: <83160@ut-emx.uucp>
- Date: 6 Nov 92 22:05:06 GMT
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- hrubin@pop.stat.purdue.edu (Herman Rubin) writes:
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- >The system is broke. There is no way that we can get enough competent
- >teachers NOW. These teachers can only dumb down thinking children.
- >That is why there is no hope of getting an adequate public school system.
-
- It ill behooves me to comment on the first half of this, since I'm going
- to be a teacher next year (ideally, a competent one, though I'm loathe
- to make that claim myself). However, I'm curious, Mr. Rubin: what
- alternative school system do you propose?
-
- (This wasn't meant as a flame; I'm honestly not sure what you have in
- mind.)
-
- --
- --Andrew Hackard If I spoke for UT, this post
- andy@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu would make even less sense.
-