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This was good: "That is the second key to reaching cynical teenagers: they must be treated like men and women whose decisions and opinions matter."
by dash2 3y ago
This was good:
"That is the second key to reaching cynical teenagers: they must be treated like men and women whose decisions and opinions matter."
- Affric 3y agoIt’s obviously the key to reaching anyone but the phrasing is genius. Our prejudice and contempt can prevent us from even getting through.
- lupire 3y agoThey must be treated as the young adults they are, whose decisions and opinions matter.
- EVa5I7bHFq9mnYK 3y agoRight, the first thing the professor should be doing to prepare Chinese students to modern American college is to teach them that categorising people into men and women is disallowed.
- xarope 3y agoJust be aware that Mandarin has different pronouns (characters) for male and female, as with other European languages(Spanish, French, Italian etc), so it might just be a case of the teacher simply thinking and hence translating in that language, rather than some sort of bias (inasmuch as the bias is inherent in the language).
- jimbob45 3y agoDan Brown, whatever your opinion of him, did a good job depicting this in The Da Vinci Code (might have been A&D, been a while since I read either). Langdon would recall teaching these subjects and students would interject and he’d take them seriously until he convinced them of whatever the point was. Of course, with IB/AP courses, there’s no time to teach well because there’s more material than can be taught within a year.