http://socraticquestions.wordpress.com/2008/10/03/fridays-links-adhd-and-michael-phelps/ Learning to ask better questions Sat, 20 Dec 2008 21:09:52 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 http://socraticquestions.wordpress.com/2008/10/03/fridays-links-adhd-and-michael-phelps/#comment-14 Kirk Hathway Thu, 09 Oct 2008 11:01:24 +0000 http://socraticquestions.wordpress.com/?p=72#comment-14 How appropriate for Phelps, what Thoreau says of education: "What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook." This, of course, reverbs in Einstein: "Education is what is remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school." How appropriate for Phelps, what Thoreau says of education: “What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.” This, of course, reverbs in Einstein: “Education is what is remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.”

]]> http://socraticquestions.wordpress.com/2008/10/03/fridays-links-adhd-and-michael-phelps/#comment-12 Adam D. Sun, 05 Oct 2008 22:08:54 +0000 http://socraticquestions.wordpress.com/?p=72#comment-12 When will we learn that the standards WE use, inherit, contrive, or whatever can be faulty. The assumption of our culture is that ADHD is bad, but why do we say this? Is it because we want to force the public to sit in desks all day from age 5 - 18? Why is that okay? It's not! As a public math teacher I supported the presupposition that all students should act identically while receiving an education for many years, but I finally learned that the support for that presupposition was nothingness. When will we learn that the standards WE use, inherit, contrive, or whatever can be faulty. The assumption of our culture is that ADHD is bad, but why do we say this? Is it because we want to force the public to sit in desks all day from age 5 – 18? Why is that okay?
It’s not! As a public math teacher I supported the presupposition that all students should act identically while receiving an education for many years, but I finally learned that the support for that presupposition was nothingness.

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