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- From: hrubin@pop.stat.purdue.edu (Herman Rubin)
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- Subject: Re: What can we have for an educational system?
- Summary: Teachers have to know what they are teaching
- Message-ID: <Bxnvsv.Itr@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>
- Date: 13 Nov 92 15:46:06 GMT
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- In article <26302@optima.cs.arizona.edu> lal@cs.arizona.edu (The Morning Sun) writes:
- >In article <ARA.92Nov11034458@camelot.ai.mit.edu> ara@zurich.ai.mit.edu (Allan Adler) writes:
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- >>As I have pointed out on other occasions, if they would improve the
- >>working conditions, they could have PhD's teaching in the public schools.
- >>I don't mean improve them a little. I mean offer working conditions that
- >>would make a PhD happy and the glut of unemployed and underemployed
- >>PhD's will beat down the doors of the schools trying to get in.
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- >>The working conditions say most eloquently how little the public cares
- >>about education.
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- >Having Ph.D's teach in public schools is not going to help.
- >A Person with a PhD, has done research in a particular area
- >which is probably totally irrevelant to his teaching.
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- >Theorem : PhD implies good teacher
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- >[thats your assumed theory]
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- [Examples deleted.]
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- In every one of the examples, the PhD was in a different area. A PhD
- in English Literature is not likely to be successful at teaching mathematics.
- It is more likely that a PhD can move even a fair amount from his/her area
- and be able to more than keep up with the class, but this is difficult.
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- The school system abounds in having teachers teaching what they do not know.
- It is notorious to have athletic coaches teaching mathematics or science.
- In the primary grades, almost none of the teachers has any understanding
- of mathematics, and consequently can only teach arithmetic manipulations.
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- Herman Rubin, Dept. of Statistics, Purdue Univ., West Lafayette IN47907-1399
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