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Started by Ed Anger, November 18, 2009, 04:58:25 PM

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MadImmortalMan

Quote from: Valmy on November 19, 2009, 12:17:14 PM
How exactly are kids supposed to type essays in class?

No biggie. Do you mean if they don't have computers?
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saskganesh

people need to learn to learn (and think) on their own. if homework is interesting, I think fewer people would hate it.
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Caliga

In high school most of my math teachers just asked people to pull out the sheet of paper with their homework written on it and went around and checked off that you'd done it in their gradebook after a mere glance at it.  Didn't take long to figure out all you had to do was keep about a half dozen sheets of past homework and just keep swapping them in and out to fool teach.
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Ed Anger

Anybody had a mimeograph teacher? You know, the one that taught by just giving out endless reams of homework and nothing else?

In the 8th grade, I had this bitch English teacher that gave out 4-5 sheets of homework a day. No teaching, no questions. We were told to read the textbook.

Eventually, I just read D&D and wargame rulebooks and the Stand in class.
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Caliga

That describes like 25% of my teachers, actually.  :lol:

I had some great teachers as a kid, but probably an equal number of totally worthless ones.
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Neil

Quote from: Valmy on November 19, 2009, 12:17:14 PM
How exactly are kids supposed to type essays in class?
Type?  Try using a pen.
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Valmy

Quote from: Neil on November 19, 2009, 02:11:04 PM
Type?  Try using a pen.

Because almost every college course requires typed papers?
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Caliga

Quote from: Neil on November 19, 2009, 02:11:04 PM
Type?  Try using a pen.
I find your old fashioned attitudes amusing and quaint. :)
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Neil

Quote from: Valmy on November 19, 2009, 02:21:50 PM
Quote from: Neil on November 19, 2009, 02:11:04 PM
Type?  Try using a pen.

Because almost every college course requires typed papers?
There aren't college students.
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DisturbedPervert

Quote from: Ed Anger on November 19, 2009, 01:18:01 PM
Anybody had a mimeograph teacher? You know, the one that taught by just giving out endless reams of homework and nothing else?

In the 8th grade, I had this bitch English teacher that gave out 4-5 sheets of homework a day. No teaching, no questions. We were told to read the textbook.

Eventually, I just read D&D and wargame rulebooks and the Stand in class.

My 'World Civ' teacher freshmen year taught by giving us a selection of pages from the textbook to read everyday, and our assignment was to write a summary of every paragraph in a notebook.  Sometimes he'd give us a blank map of a region the world, and we had to write in the names of every country.  Occasionally he'd give us a quiz on this stuff.  He basically never talked for an entire year.

garbon

Quote from: Ed Anger on November 19, 2009, 01:18:01 PM
Anybody had a mimeograph teacher? You know, the one that taught by just giving out endless reams of homework and nothing else?

In the 8th grade, I had this bitch English teacher that gave out 4-5 sheets of homework a day. No teaching, no questions. We were told to read the textbook.

In high school, my sociology teacher did that. He'd read or we'd read just from the textbook during class...although on a few occasions he would let us debate issues.  And then his pop quizzes, tests, and homework were all directly from the book.  The pop quizzes were the hardest part as he'd sometimes choose details that the book hadn't emphasized.
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