My buddy, Andrew sent me a link to an incredible (incredible bad, not incredible good) blog post on some events he witnessed in a teacher education class at McGill University in Canada. It turns out he experienced first hand a class where the professor gave a cogent explanation of how to calculate the average of a set of numbers and then watched while these college students try to do it themselves. Why they would even have to address such a topic is beyond me. I do not want to give away too much, but this is right in line with some things I have written on this topic in a previous post. I know there are some great teachers out there and I am very aware they are often saddled with untenable teaching situations. Nevertheless, if the worst students are the ones that enter the field of education and their pre-college preparation and the training they receive while they are at college is as abysmal as what is described in this post, I think everyone should find a way to get their kids away from the government education establishment.

Betty Blonde #265 – 07/24/2009
Betty Blonde #265
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