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Title: seldom is the question asked: is our children learning? Post by: Aske on March 05, 2007, 06:39:16 AM http://www.roanoke.com/news/nrv/wb/107279
Title: Re: seldom is the question asked: is our children learning? Post by: spacey on March 05, 2007, 08:50:21 AM Quote In explaining different cultures in the book, Boyer disregards political correctness. Describing how people of South America blended their culture with the Catholicism brought over from Europe, he refers to it as "freaky-freaky crap that doesn't look like Catholicism." And the war crime known as the "Rape of Nanking," in which Japanese soldiers killed thousands of Chinese people in 1937 and 1938, "really sucked for China." [sm_shock] Title: Re: seldom is the question asked: is our children learning? Post by: Oldprof on March 05, 2007, 04:44:34 PM As a professor, I have always tried to make my course materials relevant to today's world, and I much prefer plain English explanations to academic jargon. But I never intentionally dumbed down the materials - I think this professor has gone too far in that direction. He may be very popular with his students, but he isn't fostering the language skills that will benefit them once they go on the job market.
Title: Re: seldom is the question asked: is our children learning? Post by: birdymaker on March 05, 2007, 05:08:22 PM He may be very popular with his students, but he isn't fostering the language skills that will benefit them once they go on the job market. what job market would that be? they better be learning Chinese ;) Title: Re: seldom is the question asked: is our children learning? Post by: Aske on March 05, 2007, 09:10:39 PM why do you hate 'merkas owners?
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