Comments on: Make an education http://joshuafost.com/blog/2009/11/09/make-an-education/ Thoughts on (mostly) Science, Philosophy, and Education Tue, 07 Feb 2012 09:02:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: wbt http://joshuafost.com/blog/2009/11/09/make-an-education/comment-page-1/#comment-381 wbt Tue, 10 Nov 2009 04:41:48 +0000 http://joshuafost.com/blog/?p=270#comment-381 Or education as pay to earn. Or education as pay to earn.

]]> By: cw http://joshuafost.com/blog/2009/11/09/make-an-education/comment-page-1/#comment-379 cw Tue, 10 Nov 2009 02:55:08 +0000 http://joshuafost.com/blog/?p=270#comment-379 or as dinner theater, where it's all a big act but requires the audience to be willing to have a bit of audience participation, but they are paying for the show nonetheless. but you're right of course. was it aristotle who said that the job of the educator is merely to turn students' heads towards the light? or as my first supervisor put it: for the best students you just give them all the resources you can and then get the hell out of the way. or as dinner theater, where it’s all a big act but requires the audience to be willing to have a bit of audience participation, but they are paying for the show nonetheless.

but you’re right of course. was it aristotle who said that the job of the educator is merely to turn students’ heads towards the light?

or as my first supervisor put it: for the best students you just give them all the resources you can and then get the hell out of the way.

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