Re: Why Can't Students Read and Follow Directions? (Was "Why..") FORWARD from Donald Slavin.

[brian whatcott <inet@INTELLISYS.NET>]

At 11:59 10/9/01 -0700, you wrote:
> With the permission of Donald Slavin, I am herewith forwarding his
> Chemed-L post:
> ...
> I was Department Chair of Chemistry for 28 years. We have a very
> large and busy department and there is plenty of work to do for the
> chair without writing long involved reports for our administrators
> which they apparently never read.
...
> Along with legitimate speakers I listed Joseph Priestly
...
> Don Slavin
>
> Donald G. Slavin

If Joseph Priestley LLD, FRS  had been present to lecture, you might
 have heard something like this:

[Of Submission to Authority, section VIII, 1778]

"It is of great importance that children and young perfons be
 accuftomed to fubmit, without difficulty and reluctance,
to proper authority, by which is meant fuch authority as it is
for their own good, and the good of fociety, that they fhould
 fubmit to; becaufe that habit of ready fubmiffion and the temper
of mind which accompanies it, will be of unfpeakable fervice to them,
and every fociety of which they fhall be members, through life."



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