On Tue, 22 Apr 2008 10:23:16 -0400, John Husvar
wrote:
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Turned out
the whole problem was he didn't do well in a classroom setting, but
glommed onto it one-on-one like he was born in France. Slow? I don't
think slow so much as needing a different way of learning that
particular thing.
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FWIW

Over the entire student body [there are always exceptions] it has
been know for the last 85 years or so that the *LEAST* effective
method of instruction, measured both as how much knowledge is
retained, and how long it takes to acquire the knowledge, is the
traditional "sage on the stage" classroom lecture / text book
method.

So what method do we stress??????


Unka' George [George McDuffee]
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He that will not apply new remedies,
must expect new evils:
for Time is the greatest innovator: and
if Time, of course, alter things to the worse,
and wisdom and counsel shall not alter them to the better,
what shall be the end?

Francis Bacon (1561-1626), English philosopher, essayist, statesman.
Essays, "Of Innovations" (1597-1625).