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Dean
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Okay. *shrug*
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Equality 7-2521
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Right back at you.
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"One had to be a Newton to notice that the moon is falling, when everyone sees that it doesn't fall. "
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Dean
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Equality 7-2521
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"One had to be a Newton to notice that the moon is falling, when everyone sees that it doesn't fall. "
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Equality 7-2521
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Here's a Slate piece that I think all educators/parents should read
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"One had to be a Newton to notice that the moon is falling, when everyone sees that it doesn't fall. "
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The T
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Nice article. I would agree lazyness and procrastination might sometimes play second fiddle to anxiety and fear when confronting difficult subjects in school college or anywhere. I wouldn't say it's a dominant factor always or even in the majority of cases. Maybe at the college level where most people choose to go so they have more motivation. In school, it's different. Upbringing, sense of entitlement, inability to cope or even contemplate self-failure, lazyness, all of that including of course anxiety about the potential consequences are important. In the end it is mostly issues good parenting could take care of.
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horsewithteeth11
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That was my main train of thought behind the article I posted. And that was an excellent article, Pat. A lot of those items on the list he posted relate perfectly to me when I dropped out of my intro Managerial Accounting class one spring and re-took it in the summer (I didn't go get a tutor, was lost in class, and didn't bother asking questions because I had heard the professor had a reputation for not answering questions she "thought you should already know the answer to"). I bombed the mid-term, signed up for it that summer with a different professor, changed my attitude about it and became far more willing to ask for help with certain topics. And I wound up scraping an A in the class because of it. Definitely, Teo. I think a combination of all of those is why students don't/are afraid to ask for help with difficult subjects. But if you suck it up and are willing to go the extra mile and put in a bit more effort, I found out it can make the difference between an A vs. a B, a B vs. a C, or even passing the class vs. failing it.
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TGM: Orb
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Good article, Pat.
Not convinced people should have to hold out for market forces to be treated equally. It's not about enforcing societal change, it's about people treating people right on a professional basis. Edited by TGM: Orb - April 30 2013 at 19:06 |
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Dean
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Is the fear of asking a question the fear of looking stupid or the fear of not understanding the answer and feeling even more stupid? Asking questions has never bothered me, I've always worked on the principle that if I didn't understand something in a lecture then there was good chance that in a lecture theatre of 20 or 30 students I wasn't the only one. The number of pupils frantically scribbling of notes as the lecturer answered the question was often proof enough of that. I'd risk looking foolish to half the class for the sake of a better understanding of the topic being taught. That's not to say there aren't stupid questions but since smart people aren't immune from asking them the question itself is no idicator of stupidity however dumb the question may be. I'd be as concerned about a teacher who failed to answer a question (for whatever excuse) as I would be of a student that was too scared to asked one. I'm not sure how parenting can address all the problems Teo listed if the parent was failed by the same system - that circle is easier broken by an external influence. |
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Equality 7-2521
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It's both. It really depends on the student of course. I believe that the latter plays into it mostly since you see this with any extra help that you offer as a professor such as office hours, cell phone, twitter, etc. which goes unused most of the time.
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"One had to be a Newton to notice that the moon is falling, when everyone sees that it doesn't fall. "
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Atavachron
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it's forecast for 88 degrees today in S.F.-- I know it's no Texas but
for a city that's basically a foggy island, that's w a r m
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Equality 7-2521
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"One had to be a Newton to notice that the moon is falling, when everyone sees that it doesn't fall. "
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The Doctor
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It's in the mid-50s here in Texas, and that's in Fahrenheit
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I can understand your anger at me, but what did the horse I rode in on ever do to you?
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The T
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It's in the 80's here too.
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Dean
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...there is weather.
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rushfan4
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infocat
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It snowed here yesterday.
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Padraic
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give me the news, not the weather
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Stool Man
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This is not the weather news:
http://dangerousminds.net/comments/man_poses_as_pink_floyds_david_gilmour_to_avoid_medical_bills |
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rotten hound of the burnie crew
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