[Vision2020] Why should everyone pay for MSD?

[heirdoug at netscape.net]

Wayne,

I agree with you about the quality of individuals who choose to teach. 
Sometimes a college students starts out with aspirations to be a 
biologist or another science but ends up going into teaching because 
they can't cut the mustard. Others start out wanting to be teachers 
because they have a general nurturing character in their life. These 
later teachers make fine friends to the student but have a hard time 
with getting the students to really challenge their mind.

My wife finished with a teaching degree and she got a lot out of her 
"making a bulletin board" class. She never was taught how to teach 
reading and the enjoyment of reading a book for pleasure at all but she 
knows how to make a border around a bulletin board. She has noticed in 
public and private schools that very few kids graduate with a love of 
books. They got great grades but you never see them sit down and inhale 
a book for pleasure.

lemeno, Doug!






There is another problem which many do not like to speak about. I will, 
but
not meaning to give offense to any particular individual. That problem 
is
the quality of students who choose to be teachers and the quality of 
teacher
education.
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