Secret Teacher offers some of the questions heard from students, concluding that "They treat education like a military exercise. Students think there are
set answers to life’s questions; they want a formula for the number of
sentences per paragraph and expect information they can rote-learn. How
does this prepare them for anything? A book is a decoration, a
door-stop, a paperweight. An idea is irrelevant. A thought is a
distraction."
“How many sentences should I write? How big should I draw the diagram? Should I write my own opinion?”
“Is this a thinking lesson?”
“What word should I use to start this sentence?”
“Which category does that belong to?”
“Will this help us in the exam?”
“What should my conclusion be?”
“Can’t you just tell us the answers?”
“How many examples should we write down?”
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