Thursday, April 29, 2010

Context

Is it good that now kids from big cities are now learning about their world from textbook pages and workshops?
They sit and let their eyes glaze over staring distantly at their teacher, who has come with a bunch of PowerPoint slides that basically put the textbook's exact words into extremely long bullet points. She reads off them and tries to let her students understand about sunshine. How it lets the plants make food to grow well and big. How you can't look at the sun because it's too much for your corneas to take. And later for a test they will be studying the words of their textbooks, perhaps even have wandere into their yards to do so, and their eyes will only see the words on a page, not the sight before their eyes of the very plants and the very light they speak of.

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