Sunday, July 31, 2005

...teach the teachers

From the New York Times Education Life supplement, July 31 --

"I'm afraid that in the real world I will be so overwhelmed with bureacucracy that I won't be able to teach freely. When you teach geography, history, government, you can go off in so many directions. What if I can't go off on a lecture about Kennedy's assassination, or a discussion of parallels between the Iraq and Vietnam wars? I don't want my students to have to worry that they didn't remember the year Napoleon was exiled. I want them to remember what Napoleon was like."

Amanda Smith, 21
Social science/education major
University of Northern Iowa


Exactly.

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