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February 10, 2005
Filtering Out the Best
e's a handsome man, isn't he?
Once again, Thomas Sowell says what's not nice to say, but still needs to be said and, more importantly, acted upon:
- "The consistently low academic quality of the people who go into teaching in our public schools -- as shown by innumerable studies going back more than half a century -- is an almost inevitable consequence of filtering them through schools of education, whose ridiculous teacher training courses would repel virtually any intelligent person.
"Some dedicated people with intelligence may suffer through ed school in order to teach, but many others will decide that they have better things to do than listen to the pretentious garbage presented to students under the guise of teacher training.
"Whether in the corporate world or in the military, as politics and public relations become an increasing part of the job of people at the top, that filter can eliminate individuals whose only real talent is that they can get the job done right, even if they are not smooth on television or glib at conferences."
To keep up with current Educationist happenings, two good watchdogs to consult are Eduwonk and Brian's Education Blog.
*** Do not train children to learning by force and harshness, but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each. Plato
--------Posted by witnit at February 10, 2005 5:40 AM
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