I'm a tutor of English and math who is (I feel) vainly trying to get my students to think for themselves, and express their own views, based on their OWN research, not merely regurgitating what they have been "taught". I could not agree more with your opening sentence - me, too! I keenly looked forward to the day when as an adult, I cou…
I'm a tutor of English and math who is (I feel) vainly trying to get my students to think for themselves, and express their own views, based on their OWN research, not merely regurgitating what they have been "taught". I could not agree more with your opening sentence - me, too! I keenly looked forward to the day when as an adult, I could have great conversations with people about my deep interests and passions. I get to have a lot of them on Medium.com with other article writers, and with a group of very special friends whom I met through our common interest in science fiction writing and media, over 30 years ago. Students don't read enough outside the classroom to develop their own critical thinking and points of view. This needs to be remedied.
"Students don't read enough outside the classroom to develop their own critical thinking and points of view. This needs to be remedied."
If you could make one policy change that you think would have the biggest impact, what would it be? Imagine you have a great enough degree of omnipotence that you could enforce it.😄
I'm a tutor of English and math who is (I feel) vainly trying to get my students to think for themselves, and express their own views, based on their OWN research, not merely regurgitating what they have been "taught". I could not agree more with your opening sentence - me, too! I keenly looked forward to the day when as an adult, I could have great conversations with people about my deep interests and passions. I get to have a lot of them on Medium.com with other article writers, and with a group of very special friends whom I met through our common interest in science fiction writing and media, over 30 years ago. Students don't read enough outside the classroom to develop their own critical thinking and points of view. This needs to be remedied.
"Students don't read enough outside the classroom to develop their own critical thinking and points of view. This needs to be remedied."
If you could make one policy change that you think would have the biggest impact, what would it be? Imagine you have a great enough degree of omnipotence that you could enforce it.😄