Message-ID: <3436572E.5021@sjm.infi.net>
Date: Sat, 04 Oct 1997 14:48:14 +0000
From: "Raymond A. Rogoway" <rogoway@sjm.infi.net>
Reply-To: rogoway@sjm.infi.net
Organization: Independence High School
X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01Gold (Macintosh; I; PPC)
MIME-Version: 1.0
To: Sharing resources for high school physics <PHYSHARE@LISTS.PSU.EDU>
Subject: Re: Those who can....
References: <Pine.A32.3.96.971002111908.22750B-100000@eagle.lhup.edu>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by fh101.infi.net id RAA02227
The world does not need high school teachers who can do research.=20
"It is not enough to teach a man a specialty. Through it he may become a
kind of useful machine but not a harmoniously developed personality. It
is essential that the student acquire an understanding of a lively
feeling for values. He must acquire a vivid sense of the beautiful and
of the morally good. Otherwise he=97with his specialized knowledge=97more
closely resembles a well-trained dog than a harmoniously developed
person...
These precious things are conveyed through personal contact with those
who teach, not=96or at least not in the main=96through textbooks...
Overemphasis on the competitive system and premature specialization on
the ground of immediate usefulness kill the spirit on which all cultural
life depends, specialized knowledge included."