Real America pit stop #4, wherein a libtard forces students to freely learn what they want to know and writes another installment on Florida higher education
Lucid. Strong. Well supported. As usual. Thanks. As a colleague, I concur and can relate. I remember decades ago, as a student sitting in Dr. Marlène Tégé's French class in the very college where you and I teach when we learned that as a young student in Guadeloupe, she was taught to recite, “Nos Ancêtres Sont Les Gaulois," later in Senegal I learned my friends experienced the same in their colonist's French run Catholic schools. Those friends, most of whom are Muslim recited this after the obligatory Hail Mary in class. We are headed there now. You are right.
You distill it down perfectly ..." if students leave college with a slightly more liberal set of ideas than they had upon entering, that is not the fault or the design of college faculty; when that happens, it is rather the result of education itself (which is exactly why the far right want to limit the curriculum), combined with a certain amount of selection bias in terms of who makes the choice to pursue college. "
Ps. Bill Maher has turned out to be so gross. Beyond disappointment. David Brooks usually is fairly sensible and worth reading on the right. Disappointing quote from him.
Well, we will keep "indoctrinating" critical thinking. The top of my syllabi says: "Question the Answers" .
Thanks for your comment, Jenn -- what an instructive connection to French colonial school indoctrination, and even more so the combination of religion & colonialism.
Yuck, Bill Maher -- I haven't been a huge fan of his at any time, but generally found him at least funny. Several years ago I was caught off guard by some kind of homophobic or trans-hating comment he slipped into an interview, and ever since then I have been watching him run headlong into the hate industry. And he still gets all this air time. Gross is right.
Outstanding. I feel like every faculty member should read this and maybe a good many students too. So here we are with threatened public school closures across the state. I'll be speaking to the School Board Thurs alongside many others. I hope it will matter. Somewhat surprised at David Brooks here. He should know better and is not a rightwing idealogue. Excellent piece of writing.
Thanks, Tim! And for getting involved in the school closures with your writing, too.
It may be boring for a general audience but the next half of this looks at how my assignments engage with some essential civil rights and legislative issues while allowing students to control their own learning. I hope it helps illustrate how teaching and learning actually work, contra this ridiculous indoctrination myth, which is as reckless and as dangerous as the spectre of kindergarten teacher-as-groomer.
Lucid. Strong. Well supported. As usual. Thanks. As a colleague, I concur and can relate. I remember decades ago, as a student sitting in Dr. Marlène Tégé's French class in the very college where you and I teach when we learned that as a young student in Guadeloupe, she was taught to recite, “Nos Ancêtres Sont Les Gaulois," later in Senegal I learned my friends experienced the same in their colonist's French run Catholic schools. Those friends, most of whom are Muslim recited this after the obligatory Hail Mary in class. We are headed there now. You are right.
You distill it down perfectly ..." if students leave college with a slightly more liberal set of ideas than they had upon entering, that is not the fault or the design of college faculty; when that happens, it is rather the result of education itself (which is exactly why the far right want to limit the curriculum), combined with a certain amount of selection bias in terms of who makes the choice to pursue college. "
Ps. Bill Maher has turned out to be so gross. Beyond disappointment. David Brooks usually is fairly sensible and worth reading on the right. Disappointing quote from him.
Well, we will keep "indoctrinating" critical thinking. The top of my syllabi says: "Question the Answers" .
Thanks Laura.
Thanks for your comment, Jenn -- what an instructive connection to French colonial school indoctrination, and even more so the combination of religion & colonialism.
Yuck, Bill Maher -- I haven't been a huge fan of his at any time, but generally found him at least funny. Several years ago I was caught off guard by some kind of homophobic or trans-hating comment he slipped into an interview, and ever since then I have been watching him run headlong into the hate industry. And he still gets all this air time. Gross is right.
Outstanding. I feel like every faculty member should read this and maybe a good many students too. So here we are with threatened public school closures across the state. I'll be speaking to the School Board Thurs alongside many others. I hope it will matter. Somewhat surprised at David Brooks here. He should know better and is not a rightwing idealogue. Excellent piece of writing.
Thanks, Tim! And for getting involved in the school closures with your writing, too.
It may be boring for a general audience but the next half of this looks at how my assignments engage with some essential civil rights and legislative issues while allowing students to control their own learning. I hope it helps illustrate how teaching and learning actually work, contra this ridiculous indoctrination myth, which is as reckless and as dangerous as the spectre of kindergarten teacher-as-groomer.