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Post by cjm on Sept 23, 2023 8:14:52 GMT
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Post by Trog on Sept 25, 2023 20:04:36 GMT
How well you do at school depends on how much your teachers know: That is certainly true w.r.t. mathematics. Being taught maths by a teacher who doesn't actually understands the material and simply follows the script is indistinguishable from not being taught at all. Such a teacher has no framework available to him from which to actually elucidate that which he attempts to teach. There are indeed those who can ignore the teacher and simply pick it up by themselves. There are very few of them. (My maths teacher in matric was Sybil Coetzee's mother. She had no more than maybe a subject certification to teach maths and an IQ which at most probably aspired to the average. My classroom experience was one of boredom and cringing on her behalf). |
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Post by cjm on Sept 26, 2023 7:29:28 GMT
How well you do at school depends on how much your teachers know: That is certainly true w.r.t. mathematics. Being taught maths by a teacher who doesn't actually understands the material and simply follows the script is indistinguishable from not being taught at all. Such a teacher has no framework available to him from which to actually elucidate that which he attempts to teach. There are indeed those who can ignore the teacher and simply pick it up by themselves. There are very few of them. (My maths teacher in matric was Sybil Coetzee's mother. She had no more than maybe a subject certification to teach maths and an IQ which at most probably aspired to the average. My classroom experience was one of boredom and cringing on her behalf). I accept that knowledgeable teachers can give you an advantage, but the textbook used to be the guiding source and very little was taught that was not contained in it. All that was required was a teacher who could read. |
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