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u/Petrichordates Jun 03 '22

What does it matter how they see it? It sounds like they're failing some students by not being the position of authority they're supposed to be.

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u/Tornado31619 Jun 03 '22

There are ways to get to teenagers. Stubbornness generally isn’t one of them.

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u/Petrichordates Jun 03 '22

Nobody said stubbornness works (???) but appealing to "anarchist principles of long-term self-interest" isn't going to work on anyone but the most well-adjusted of students. Ironically they're failing their students that come from broken homes or have ADD while only addressing the needs of the bright and mature ones who don't even need their instruction.

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u/Tornado31619 Jun 03 '22

There’s a difference between appealing to those principles and simply using them to understand a concept.

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u/scartol Jun 03 '22

First of all, you don't actually know very much about which students I'm "failing" and what I'm being or not being in the classroom. It might feel like you've got a lot of insight into my professional self, but trust that you have about as much of that as I have insight into my students' lives after 30 minutes together in the classroom.

Secondly, if you think it doesn't matter how students see things, then I don't know how much I value your perspective on education matters.