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RE: Mad Teachers - 1/28/2007 3:38:21 AM

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I reckon you're onto something, Sleazy. I always preferred the subjects involving concepts and human behaviour. I'm far more interested in the human interaction that shapes international politics and events. Science always seemed so trivial to me (I can see there is an argument to the contrary but I could never get enthusiastic about those subjects). The "unbreakable law" point is probably close to home - I prefer endless possibilities and discussion to "this is right and that is wrong" subjects. Where's the challenge in being told "this is the answer"? With regard to history, there is no defined answer - it's a puzzle - you look at the evidence, fit the pieces together and draw your own conclusion - far more mentally challenging and stimulating for me.

Its not that I am anti the thought subjects, after all both within my personal and professional lives psychology plays a very important role, although much like history (which I detested) that is very much a crossover subject between the thought subjects and the rule subjects. The challenge with subjects that have solid rules is not in being told what the rules are, but discovering them yourself and then trying to fit everything else around such rules. things fall at 9.8m/s/s (an earthbound average, martians insert your own figure here) why? how can I make something fall faster or slower. The same applies to pyschology, how can I make people do what I want, prefferably willingly.

A physics experiment is generally pretty confined as to the people it affects directly at the time and men in white coats often have an idea what the end result will be having spent time with pen and paper and the "rulebook" to predict the likely results, unfortunately social experiments affect all and there is no real rulebook, just a lot of wishful thinking.

One way to look at it is that hard science gave you your computer and the internet, social science currently wants you labeled and pigeonholed as "mass acceptable"

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RE: Mad Teachers - 1/28/2007 3:49:54 AM

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All points taken on board (even the old prejudices :-) )

The key point for me, history allows the reader to understand the actions of the human world and the causes of major historic events. For me, understanding group human behaviour is far more appealing than understanding the laws of gravity and the environment. A matter for personal taste.

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RE: Mad Teachers - 1/28/2007 3:52:27 AM

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Then we had a music teacher who was supposed to teach us theatre and stage music but he knew we hated it so he used to let us play The Jam, The Clash etc for an hour long lesson. All in all, good times.

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That Junior High teacher was the same, he taught us social Studies and it was bloody boring and he knew a bunch of 13 year olds were not going to remember anything about the Russian goverment. This was in the 1980's when role playing games like Dungeons and Dragons was all the rage and he took a game he had created (and sold very well, he was a teacher just because he loved it not out of necessity) and had us all in groups and we created our own countires and goverments, it was the best learning tool

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RE: Mad Teachers - 1/28/2007 6:26:49 AM

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The only one that sticks out in my mind is an older man that had a class at the bottom of a stairway at my old High School. He used to stand in the stairway between classes and read a book, but it was pretty obvious that he was looking up skirts. I never had a class with him. He was supposed to be a super good teacher.

Rice has some very interresting personalities ... but I'm going to wait a few years before discussing any of them.

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