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Perhaps the most important lesson the author failed to learn in school is: sometimes if you want to succeed and keep The Man off your back you gotta Play The Ga
by unoti 12y ago
Perhaps the most important lesson the author failed to learn in school is: sometimes if you want to succeed and keep The Man off your back you gotta Play The Game. Real life isn't all about the best people encouraging and helping each other, unfortunately.
- fnordfnordfnord 12y agoNot sometimes, nearly every student/teacher transaction in HS involves following a scripted exercise (rote learning). This repetitive scripted practice technique "works" the first time for some; but other students need more repetition(these get left behind, and suffer in subjects that build upon the missed prerequisite unit), and yet others need less (they get bored, and the activity has a detrimental effect). But everyone gets the same amount and covers new material at the same pace. Fortunately, there is effort underway to refine and improve pedagogy at the HS level in the US, but boy has it been slow in coming.