tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11679714.post814660107997286055..comments2024-03-29T06:46:56.337-04:00Comments on Half an Hour: The Robot TeachersStephen Downeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06140591903467372209noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11679714.post-25405777450477192952012-09-11T08:17:42.274-04:002012-09-11T08:17:42.274-04:00Hi Stephen (and others)
Thank you for such a comp...Hi Stephen (and others)<br /><br />Thank you for such a comprehensive post, and for the useful links.<br /><br />This is what I have learned after nearly 20 years of teaching in a university: Whatever their stated goals and strategic mission statements, the primary purpose of institutions of higher education is to advance the careers of their most powerful and privileged members. It's about power - who has it, how they wield it, and whose interest it serves - before it is about education. It's about ruling rather than leading. Leaders uses their position to empower others to take their place; rulers use the power of their position to keep others in their place.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.instituteinjaipur.com/" rel="nofollow"><b>PHP training in jaipur</b></a> :-<a href="http://www.instituteinjaipur.com/" rel="nofollow">Website Designing Institute Jaipur</a>The sort of course we have developed start with an introduction to the net and the web. We are much eager to tell you the exact norms of web designing technology. We train, we place and we support because over the years we have acquired that power to suffice you with complete regards. We have in possession the perfect designing software and the workable Firework Logos to help you out with perfection. Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Flash are several effective tools that we have in hand and we make use of perfect images and design banners for initiating a pleasing website layout.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03114132667963612541noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11679714.post-48132252644068298172012-09-05T20:33:23.994-04:002012-09-05T20:33:23.994-04:00Hello Stephen,
I was pointed toward your blog by ...Hello Stephen,<br /><br />I was pointed toward your blog by Will Richardson, and I am glad that I was. As a public school teacher in the US, I can only shake my head at what I'm seeing education here become. The privatization and industrialization of education continues apace, with no signs of letting up, and both of our major political parties fall over themselves to see who can apply more business-like metrics to it.<br /><br />I am intrigued by your last paragraph, about becoming a <i>professional</i> educator. In many ways, what you are looking for is the 21st century version of a librarian - one who curates, collects, creates, and can explain knowledge to a wide range of people. And, they would be someone who others seek out for that reason. It's a lovely vision of what educators could be in a more just, equitable, and thoughtful society.<br /><br />-MikeQhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01222812519913852182noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11679714.post-52870125193782673852012-09-04T08:18:50.380-04:002012-09-04T08:18:50.380-04:00Hi Stephen (and others)
Thank you for such a comp...Hi Stephen (and others)<br /><br />Thank you for such a comprehensive post, and for the useful links.<br /><br />This is what I have learned after nearly 20 years of teaching in a university: Whatever their stated goals and strategic mission statements, the primary purpose of institutions of higher education is to advance the careers of their most powerful and privileged members. It's about power - who has it, how they wield it, and whose interest it serves - before it is about education. It's about ruling rather than leading. Leaders uses their position to empower others to take their place; rulers use the power of their position to keep others in their place.<br /><br />@mark_mcguire<br />http://markmcguire.net/Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com