Comments on: Bulletin! Students learn better when taught

By: ownetteBuse

ownetteBuse — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 00:34:41 +0000

Nothing seems to be easier than seeing someone whom you can help but not helping.
I suggest we start giving it a try. Give love to the ones that need it.
God will appreciate it.

By: John N. Frary

John N. Frary — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 12:29:26 +0000

WAIT! This can’t be a good thing. It’s not innovative.

By: Rogan Eelsbreath

Rogan Eelsbreath — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 16:01:49 +0000

One little idea, 400 words. I’ll never get those two minutes back.

By: heather

heather — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 05:18:51 +0000

For the past couple of generations, we have “taught” history without those boring dates; and writing without that boring old grammar or spelling; and arithmetic without those boring old multiplication table; and because teachers have forgotten how easy it is to ‘memorize’ anything (this is the specialty of the very young), well, why have children do that boring old ‘memorization.’ Yep, it is all so BORING,all that boring old stuff. Better to haul out the crayons and paper and calculators… and learn to “think,” and ENJOY LEARNING.

I have by the way, tried to tutor high school students for that last mad dash to the final exams in algebra… and do you know, if you don’t understand RIGHT AWAY, that the factors of ’48′ are 6 and 8 and 12, etc… you cannot factor a quadratic equation????

Do you know that if you can’t tell the difference between Queen Elizabeth I and Queen Victoria, and that they lived some 250 years apart in time… you cannot understand history???? You cannot understand the very simple FACT that Times Change!!!!

But “educators” know that it isn’t important that a teacher ‘know’ anything’, it is sufficient that he know ‘how to teach.’ You know, that pedagogical thingy.

By: Mike Magaletti

Mike Magaletti — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 19:58:34 +0000

Hmmm. Isn’t that why elementary schools were once called grammar schools. Oh, but that was in the old days…before we knew better.

By: Sissy Willis

Sissy Willis — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 14:27:46 +0000

That’s the trouble with “educators.” Even a nine-year-old child who reads Science News for Kids would know that “people have a tough time learning new languages as they grow older, but infants have the ability to learn any language, even fake ones, easily.” I had thought that was common knowledge but suppose it depends upon what your definition of common is. Who is educating the “educators”?

“The rhythms and emotional weather” of learning by heart