tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1140396545385302036.post2031317124999316209..comments2009-03-02T13:43:40.217+00:00Comments on Educational Conscription: Pity the poor teachersSurreptitious Evilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15393411103584747731noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1140396545385302036.post-63573538904441868152007-04-05T16:38:00.000+01:002007-04-05T16:38:00.000+01:00Absolutely.Absolutely.Fabe Tassanohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03279119414821928574noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1140396545385302036.post-31831239668871808832007-04-05T16:23:00.000+01:002007-04-05T16:23:00.000+01:00The best way to keep someone in a room is to leave...The best way to keep someone in a room is to leave the door open. Shut the door, and their mind immediately switches to how they can open it and escape.Roger Thornhillhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01153744692290896812noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1140396545385302036.post-55544107293637737732007-04-05T08:27:00.000+01:002007-04-05T08:27:00.000+01:00I don't know how some of the people working in com...I don't know how some of the people working in comprehensives can stand it. Many must surely end up unable to cope, depressed, on medication, and so on. My girlfriend is a teacher, but has so far managed to avoid working in the state sector. When she did her training at a comp, she thought there was no way she could have taken that environment for any length of time.<BR/><BR/>I think you're right that part of the problem is many of the people there just don't want to be there, and 15-year-old boys (some of them clearly as adult as they're ever going to get) forced to spend nearly every day doing something they don't want to do are going to express their displeasure and make sure everyone's aware of it. An argument, surely, for reducing the school leaving age rather than increasing it.<BR/><BR/>I wonder whether the fault doesn't also lie to some extent with the content of contemporary lessons. These seem to have been (a) dumbed down, and not in a way which necessarily benefits the less intelligent, (b) politicised, (c) biased against the psychology of males, i.e. less about drive and achievement and more about plodding virtuousness. So if teenage boys find themselves driven out of their skulls with mindless tedious pap, forcibly driven into their brains in an environment of incarceration, no one should be surprised if they end up being disruptive.Fabe Tassanohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03279119414821928574noreply@blogger.com