From: EvMick@aol.com
Date: Thu Feb 24 2000 - 23:28:17 MST
In a message dated 2/24/00 11:00:57 PM Central Standard Time,
QueeneMUSE@aol.com writes:
>
> If one is a teacher, one need not poop on the phrase "multiple
intelligence".
I'm sure teaching used to be a very honorable profession. I even remember
seeing a few that were good at teaching.....less lately that earlier...but to
each his (or her) own.
>
><snip very erudite discussion of Howard Gardner's theory>
> I could give a good goddamn. If it helps children learn, it's good.
> If one has a vested bogged down in the need of being "right" one may find
> the
> idea of other types of intelligence threatening, since in most nonlinear
> thought processes you may not find a "right" answer. Only in logic can one
> have certainty, so therefore some people claim it is the only one true
> intelligence.
> Who cares? Go be right, I'll go spread love to kids ... bye bye
Bad day at the office huh?
The point I was alluding to is similar to "guilt by association" but the
opposite. Competence by association?
Whatever you call it....I feel that if <whatever> has merit...it should be
able to stand alone...if not then it shouldn't hide under the wing of some
thing that DOES have merit. Be it New Age Books sneaking into the Science
and Tech section...Fantasy cuddling up to the SF....or whatever...
And yeah...I like to be right. I have been right now and then....
Often enough though I'm wrong. This list lets me know pretty frequently that
my sacred cows are really chopped steak. Oh well....
>
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EvMick
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