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Survey Finds 40% Of Colleges Have ZERO GOP Professors
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(05-08-2018, 09:17 PM)Dill Wrote: Just a quick note here--there are some skills students need to learn at the HS level to get on in college. E.g., how to write, a rudimentary knowledge of how to construct research papers.

In Liberal Arts and social science fields, it seems to me that the first two years lay a basis for later work in that one cannot do "depth" without sufficient breadth.  The relation between Masters and PhD work is also like that in some fields, with the Masters aimed at breadth and the PhD a specialization--though that specialization presumes breadth.

Also, liberal arts education isn't all about getting jobs. It is--or should be--about producing a more general understanding of the world and one's place in it.  Thus people learn all kinds of things that will never be job-knowledge--like where Afghanistan is on the map and why there are Catholics and Protestants.


There's not much disagreement here, so I will mention this: I don't believe that I implied the part that is bolded, but if I gave that impression, then that was not the intent. I was more speaking about timelines whether they apply the same in STEM fields vs. other fields (i.e. when I draw the line at say two years into college vs. later etc.). I was certain of the general arc moving towards more "specializing" as a college student matures. But this is not a major revelation so I will stop here.

I find this overall thread very amusing (mainly the OP) considering that we're discussing the qualifications to be a good teacher, when we find ourselves in the context of a Betsy DeVos (or Devious like I like to call her), running the Department of Education, when I can't find her in possession of even the rudimentary qualifications for the post that she holds nor the the aptitude to have learned on the job based on her public interviews so far.
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RE: Survey Finds 40% Of Colleges Have ZERO GOP Professors - masterpanthera_t - 05-09-2018, 06:11 PM

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