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A long ramble, and a lesson in subtext.
Problematics of educational philosophy vis-à-vis socioeconomics: An anecdotal spin around the neighborhood.
(It sounds beefy, but don’t fret, kids! We’ll have some fun.)
I. Like ghosts in the closet, some pesky assumptions that won’t go away.
A. Are scholars born or made?
Now, knowing that “nature or nuture” is largely an either/or fallacy, and that “good teaching” has been cited as being a factor in academic success…
…is one born with innate academic talent as one sort of multiple intelligence? (See Gardner et al.)
B. Have we created so many social stressors that affect academics - lack of sleep for being in front of a display, economic needs such as having to have a job because we need those hundred-dollar jeans, house prices so high that both parents come home zombie from mindless wage slavery - that it may be impossible for the student to do well?
Don’t tell me “Turn Off the TV”; the TV has become surrogate daycare which the PARENTS HAVE SWITCHED ON TO GET A QUIET MINUTE. And at that formative stage, the damage is being done.
(You can’t prove that!
You couldn’t prove cigarettes caused cancer in the 70’s, either.)
II. “The Business of America is Business”: Pressures to be a Walking Mouth.
“Change comes from the bottom up: no man holding a royal flush wants a reshuffle of the cards.”
The Powers want you to be a Consumer. Being a Consumer keeps people in business.
By all means, be able to read: as America transitions to an Information Economy, the worker needs written communication skills. (Just don’t test critical thinking skills, an entirely different subset of written comm.)
Vote, please! That shows America is a multi-party democracy in the business of Freedom. (We are in effect a two-party system bound up with money-raising and lobbying and cronyism and it doesn’t seem to matter whether it’s Asses or Elephants, does it?)
First Amendment your opinions, please. You probably got them from a pundit anyway, and they’re not contributing much except to turn the wheel of the status quo.
Die. When you die, there’s an industry and a taxation all around that, and your death plays a vital part in someone’s livelihood.
III. This is getting depressing. No wonder I can’t finish my PhD (Piled high and Deeper).
What I try to do in my course is distinguish the definitions of fact and opinion,
To make clear that when I’m stating a fact it is a fact -
After explaining the problematics of fact vs. axiom vs. truth -
And that my opinion is just that,
But that opinions may have facts behind them, and
It’s up to you to believe (read: buy) my opinion or not.
And then to look at how some will front opinion as fact with the Tyranny of Is.
Is any of that on the AP exam?
Problematics of educational philosophy vis-à-vis socioeconomics: An anecdotal spin around the neighborhood.
(It sounds beefy, but don’t fret, kids! We’ll have some fun.)
I. Like ghosts in the closet, some pesky assumptions that won’t go away.
A. Are scholars born or made?
Now, knowing that “nature or nuture” is largely an either/or fallacy, and that “good teaching” has been cited as being a factor in academic success…
…is one born with innate academic talent as one sort of multiple intelligence? (See Gardner et al.)
B. Have we created so many social stressors that affect academics - lack of sleep for being in front of a display, economic needs such as having to have a job because we need those hundred-dollar jeans, house prices so high that both parents come home zombie from mindless wage slavery - that it may be impossible for the student to do well?
Don’t tell me “Turn Off the TV”; the TV has become surrogate daycare which the PARENTS HAVE SWITCHED ON TO GET A QUIET MINUTE. And at that formative stage, the damage is being done.
(You can’t prove that!
You couldn’t prove cigarettes caused cancer in the 70’s, either.)
II. “The Business of America is Business”: Pressures to be a Walking Mouth.
“Change comes from the bottom up: no man holding a royal flush wants a reshuffle of the cards.”
The Powers want you to be a Consumer. Being a Consumer keeps people in business.
By all means, be able to read: as America transitions to an Information Economy, the worker needs written communication skills. (Just don’t test critical thinking skills, an entirely different subset of written comm.)
Vote, please! That shows America is a multi-party democracy in the business of Freedom. (We are in effect a two-party system bound up with money-raising and lobbying and cronyism and it doesn’t seem to matter whether it’s Asses or Elephants, does it?)
First Amendment your opinions, please. You probably got them from a pundit anyway, and they’re not contributing much except to turn the wheel of the status quo.
Die. When you die, there’s an industry and a taxation all around that, and your death plays a vital part in someone’s livelihood.
III. This is getting depressing. No wonder I can’t finish my PhD (Piled high and Deeper).
What I try to do in my course is distinguish the definitions of fact and opinion,
To make clear that when I’m stating a fact it is a fact -
After explaining the problematics of fact vs. axiom vs. truth -
And that my opinion is just that,
But that opinions may have facts behind them, and
It’s up to you to believe (read: buy) my opinion or not.
And then to look at how some will front opinion as fact with the Tyranny of Is.
Is any of that on the AP exam?