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If we cannot expect 30-60 minutes a night for homework in
junior high, 60-90 minutes a night for high school, and 1-2
hours out of class for each hour in class for college... and
if we cannot expect students to spend this time in a manner
that enhances their personal understanding of the material...
then I don't see how any curriculum is going to succeed. If
"having a life outside of class" is the current standard for
education, then we must change that standard or else accept
the dumbing down of America. I don't see any way to have
"less is more" if this is understood as less time spent can
yield more learned. That "ain't gonna happen."
Michael D. Edmiston, Ph.D.
Phone/voice-mail: 419-358-3270
Professor of Chemistry & Physics FAX:
419-358-3323
Chairman, Science Department E-Mail
edmiston@bluffton.edu
Bluffton College
280 West College Avenue
Bluffton, OH 45817