"teachers have always been somewhat ambivalent about what they do for a living." Postman & Weingartner
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"In English, we can transform any process or relationship into a 'thing' by the simple expedient of naming (cont) http://tl.gd/73j322anderscj
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"there is increasing evidence that we 'make' the reality we perceive rather than passively 'receive' or 'reflect' it." Postman & Weingartneranderscj
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"one of the reasons they have 'turned off' and 'tuned out' their educational experience is that the (cont) http://tl.gd/73j5lqanderscj
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"What can't be graded doesn't exist, and what can doesn't seem important." Postman & Weingartneranderscj
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Amen! RT @anderscj "What can't be graded doesn't exist, and what can doesn't seem important." Postman & Weingartner
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"Nobody likes a smart revolutionary, especially an amateur." Postman & Weingartneranderscj
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Another note to self: get a copy of Dewey's 'Education for What Is Real'anderscj
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"You tend to perceive what you want and need to perceive, and what your past experience has led you to (cont) http://tl.gd/73jdiianderscj
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"The ability to learn can be seen as the ability to relinquish inappropriate perceptions and to develop (cont) http://tl.gd/73jef9anderscj
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"We have no common world, and communication is possible only to the extent that two perceivers have similar p (cont) http://tl.gd/73jf5eanderscj
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"What happens to the learner after his mind has been molded?" Postman & Weingartneranderscj
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"if teachers acted as if their students were meaning makers, almost everything about the schooling process (cont) http://tl.gd/73jiamanderscj
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"if you assume you are confronted by a 'meaning maker' rather than an 'empty bucket,' you would quite (cont) http://tl.gd/73k5kcanderscj
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"But a 'lecture' is only what you said from your point of view. For the learner, its content is what he heard." Postman & Weingartneranderscj
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"How many children do you suppose have been driven to stupidity because their teachers believed that they (cont) http://tl.gd/73k6epanderscj
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"yet there is hardly a school in the country that has not organized children into groups labeled 'dumb' so (cont) http://tl.gd/73k7hfanderscj
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"What we 'see' is a product of what we believe to be 'out there.' We see things not as 'they' are, but as we are." Postman & Weingartneranderscj
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"in an inquiry environment, the lesson is always about the learner. He is 'the content.' It is about the (cont) http://tl.gd/73k8hmanderscj
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