Broke: Humans learn by lectures. Woke: Humans learn by imitation. Lectures are an outdated way of transmitting knowledge, and future of education should reflect this. Humans are mimetic.
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Back when I was at Michigan, I took a 6-week seminar on college teaching run by Ed dept ideologues who ranted at us all through about “sage on the stage” like it was cancer and how cooperative student-centric teaching was best, adapted to learning styles, learning by doing etc.
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Left a bad taste in my mouth, plus a lot of their indoctrination has since been debunked. In general good teaching is just a teacher sincere about trying to connect and get through. Good learning is a student who wants to. The process is secondary.
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