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Hi all-
Mervin writes:
On Wed, 5 Sep 2001, MERVIN KOEHLINGER wrote:
"Teaching and learning are not synonymous. Each requiresI say, "Nonsense!". Learning requires maximum
maximum effort from the practitioner."
effort. Teaching
only involves enough effort to persuade the student to give
maximum effort.
Or, the teacher who gives maximum effort is
depriving the student
of the experience of knowing the need to give maximum
effort.
Maybe we're not all agreed on what teaching is all
about. Or,
maybe, many people who become teachers do so as a means of
expressing their own need to "give maximum effort"
regardless of the effect on their students.
Regards,
Jack
--
Franz Kafka's novels and novella's are so Kafkaesque that
one has to wonder at the enormity of coincidence required to
have produced a writer named Kafka to write them.
Greg Nagan from "The Metamorphosis"
in
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