Re: Didactics and Akademe

[brian whatcott <inet@intellisys.net>]

At 08:53 9/16/98 -0600, you wrote:
> > I certainly can't see the forces the fingers exert....
> > The situation of this demo is far too complicated for me to get a concept
> > out of it.
> >
> > 	-- Donald

> It seems to me that we *never* "see" the forces.  We never measure them
> directly in any other way either.... 
>
> If we run students through several iterations (jr hi, HS, intro college,
> upper div undergrad) of a process which fails to make this distinction,
> then is it any surprise that grad students show little tendency to be
> independent of authority or canon?  Should the findings of Tobias' report
> "They're not dumb..." be any surprise?
> ...
> Dewey I. Dykstra, Jr. 

 I thought I caught in this, a moment of Professor Dykstra's insight.
One must be driven towards an ideal of student capability that can 
perfectly decorate one's own understanding; yet on the other hand one
demands that the very best can discard and distain one's hardest won
academic values.

Brian
brian whatcott <inet@intellisys.net>
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