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Shawn Cornally - The Future of Education Without Coercion
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Posts tagged "grades"
August 21, 2011
October 10, 2010
June 25, 2010
“ I think we should be subjective. We are the experts, not the test.
April 17, 2010
“ Think about a video game that a Gen Yer might practice and practice, beating one high score after another, set by himself. He wins every time, and nobody has a reason to feel bad. That’s the kind of competition Gen Yers are looking for: they want to compete against themselves in a safe environment where they can try over and over again to improve on their own performance benchmarks.
July 18, 2009
“ This is where teacher turns serious and asks the Big Question: What is education, anyway? What are we doing in this school? You can say you’re trying to graduate so you can go to college and prepare for a career. But, fellow students, it’s more than that. I’ve had to ask myself what the hell I’m doing in the classroom. I’ve worked out an equation for myself. On the left side of the blackboard I print a capital F, on the right side another capital F. I draw an arrow from left to right, from FEAR to FREEDOM. I don’t think anyone achieves complete freedom, but what I am trying to do with you is drive fear into a corner.
-Teacher Man: a memoir by By Frank McCourt
June 20, 2009
May 11, 2009
“ The flaw in the educational system, as far as I see it, is that you live your life - the teacher and student - in quest of A’s. Yet later in life, the A is irrelevant. So then what is the point of the school system? It’s missing something. It is not identifying to people who actually succeed in life, because they’re not showing up as the straight A’s. So somewhere in there, the educational system needs to reflect on what it takes to succeed in life, and get some of that back into the classroom.
January 23, 2009
“ Like many status-quos in education, homework policies should be examined and revised.
“ I cringe when I hear students ask, ‘Mr. B, is this for a grade?’ because of this very fact. We should desire to eliminate that question in our schools—do we not want students to be motivated for the sake of learning itself?
