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From: WileyCCC@aol.com Date: Mon, 12 Apr 1999 12:10:57 EDT Subject: Re: On Polarization
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In a message dated 4/12/99 6:07:51 AM, RLEAMNSON@umassd.edu writes:
<<Much of the recent literature (and now and then a plenary
session at a national meeting) would suggest that college teaching
in the U.S. has failed, or is going to in the near future. But that
begs the question, "compared to what?" The only answer so far is
"something wonderful just over the horizon.">>
Indeed the only answer is "something wonderful just over the horizon."
because panic sets in if we compare what we have now to what we had before:
High school graduates who spoke greek and latin, could reckon the volume of a
cylinder and had beowulf memorized. But those were the bad old days and I
would never recommend we return there. No, no... but I do recommend we
resume the trajectory we were on as a society that showed such education was
making its way into harlem and such disadvantaged communities before
progressive ideas decided something wonderful was just over the horizon.
John Spiers
MA Ed Admin
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