Posted by alexandra_k on October 6, 2015, at 16:58:09
In reply to Re: Reconnecting » Dinah, posted by alexandra_k on October 6, 2015, at 16:19:04
If we don't look at what is happening - then how can we change it? If we go 'oh my gosh - that is so racist!' or whatever... Then we don't look at what is happening - then how can we change it?
Fact:
There are an awful lot of people here who get 'suddenly out of the blue' diagnosed with a terminal condition and all that can be offered is charm until they pass.
Occasionally people wonder why it didn't get picked up earlier... Or why something (some surgery, some medication) can't be done... But not usually... The people are so nice... Clearly they are doing everything within their power...
How could we make things better? For EVERYONE?
First rule: Don't prevent people from working / learning.
Then we have to teach them how to be good learners. So they can learn from the people who know.
We need to teach them how to identify the things that can be learned. To identify the experts.
Those pre-conditions on learning...
Then people can make informed decisions about whether or not they want to learn what is actually on offer.
I don't care if they want to offer degrees for what they value -- they should do that. I don't have a problem with that. I do have a problem with false advertising. I am just as angry about the students who are failed for chemistry because they thought chemistry was going to be about flirting with their lab instructors. Someone should have disabused them of that notion BEFORE they wasted thousands of dollars of (student loans) in doing that course... Similarly, I wouldn't have thrown money at a course that wasn't planning on rewarding things like hard work, doing the readings, having a basic standard of literacy. To each their own.
Instead of this 'everybody must come down to the lowest common denominator because people are equal didn't you know'
Noone is allowed clinically competent medicine because some people don't value it?
Is that the idea? Education, too?
Do you think about this stuff any more, Dinah? Maybe you left so you wouldn't have to...
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