Re: ??? ??? ???=the nature of students

[David Dockstader <DRDOCK00@UKCC.UKY.EDU>]

On Fri, 05 Sep 1997 13:37:42 -0400 George Spagna said:
> I propose another aspect of their conditioning, that they have been trained
> to expect a particular kind of "education" which loosely translates as "I
> will tell you the answer before I ask the question, and will only ask those
> questions for which I have already given the answer."  Poor Ludwik asked
> them a question for which he hadn't told them the answer!
We usually try to blaim all our problems on TV, but I think George has a
offered us a deeper and more useful insight.  <Students have come to expect
a particular kind of "education">  We the educators are apparently a big
part of the problem.  How did we get to this sad state of affairs and how
do we get out of it?