Imagine a world where morality is subjective, disease is rampant, and where men treat men as a means to an end. It's Immanuel Kant's worst nightmare, and it's our downfall. Recant your faith in the heretical dollar before we all pay!
If students were interested in learning, it WOULD help, but people other than the student can do only so much to encourage that. Students today are just apathetic and lazy toward school and work ethics, and that is not the fault of their teachers. However, I agree that all of this NCLB standardization is not helping any, particularly in its under-fundedness. As the fiance of a teacher, and friend of several others, I recognize that their hands are tied. Generally well-meaning administrations force them to spoon-feed in most cases. That helps no-one, but unless the school wants severe repercussions from the government, they will continue to spoon-feed. It's better than nothing, it would seem.
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Seoha · Community Member · Tue Jun 07, 2005 @ 05:15pm
The teacher in my school who is the most popular and everyone loves the most is the social studies teacher, who is laid back and does fun things in class. He also puts us in the British people's places during the revolutionary war, and he sometimes puts us in the place of a person working at a mill. He makes us all love it and I think we will all appreciate it when we move up from his level of teaching. My friend described him as "Flexible, fun, and nice." That's the way the teachers should be.
Sometimes it isn't the teachers though. Haven't you noticed that as the years go by, kids are learning more at a faster rate, have no time to do alot of the things they want, and everyone is pressuring them to do more things. The education system seems to be binding kids into the classroom but what they do not seem to realize is the more you grip, the more they'll want you to let go.