[geeks] Education

[Mike Hebel]

Someone generated the quantum flux that came across as... wa2egp at att.net
>>    Wha...? Really?! Horrifying.
>>    Heck, I correct "professional" writing here at work with a red pen
>> all the time. I even proof-read a friend's book (over and over and over)
>> and did it to him -- and he wrote _better_. Some people may think I'm a
>> jerk, but there's no substitute for seeing something you considered
>> "finished" showing up looking like a scrap of old butcher's paper. :7)
>> -wde
>> --
>> Will Enestvedt
>> UNIX System Administrator
>> Johnson & Wales University -- Providence, RI
>
> An article was published in the Newark Star Ledger a few years ago where
> a Rutgers education professor made that statement about red pens.  It
> was photocopied and passed around as the "joke of the day".  There are
> teachers in my school that were taught NOT to use red pens.  It's
> happening....


Yeah you might "traumatize" the student by actually asking them to
perform.  Outcome based education blows.  At least with all my daughter's
problems I can _see_ progress and they don't let her slide on it either.


Mike Hebel
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Waiting for Wyatt's Torch to go out...