Re: Spiral Approach within general physics

[Hugh Haskell <hhaskell@MINDSPRING.COM>]

At 17:12 -0400 7/24/02, Ludwik Kowalski wrote:

> In large classes it means
> "do not allow students to pass a course unless reasonable
> expectations are satisfied." I was never asked to follow
> this principle by an administrator. But I was often asked
> (indirectly) to do the opposite: something like "education
> is not for an elite, give everybody a a chance to succeed."

How are the two statements in quotes incompatible? I agree strongly
with both of them, on face value. Unless, of course, they are being
used as code phrases for "I plan on being the hardest-nosed sumbitch
in this department" and "in this school we never fail anybody no
matter how little they have accomplished."

Hugh
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