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<blockquote data-quote="Jay Barracato" data-source="post: 96799" data-attributes="member: 24">Re: Property TaxMax,the problem with making educational decisions based on group statistics is that education fundamentally remains something an individual must do for themselves, not something teachers do to students. Most current discussions of educational policy miss this point. The same thing is seen in American athletics; when the team of highly paid athletes does not perform up to expectations, they fire the coach.Another part of the game is the fact that while it ultimately doesn&#039;t matter where your knowledge and thinking skills come from once you have a position, having a degree is often important in gaining the position. Knowledge gained from the school of hard knocks is almost always useful, but they refer to it as hard knocks for a reason. Knowledge from the school of hard knocks may not always be accessible when it is needed and while it may be nice to understand things in hindsight, it is not until you can apply that understanding to current events that the knowledge is useful.So my advice to students is always: be greedy about your education, because knowledge, unlike prestige,power, or money, is not diminished when it is shared. Learn all you can from anyone you can, but ultimately, be willing to gather information and analyze things for yourself. Recognize when your information sources are feeding you their conclusions rather than data. Recognize that intelligence/expertise in one field doesn&#039;t always translate to expertise in other fields.As for the students who spent an entire year with me and didn&#039;t learn a thing, but instead treated my classroom like their own private episode of Jackass, at the end they are the ones who are poorer,not me.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Jay Barracato, post: 96799, member: 24"] Re: Property Tax Max, the problem with making educational decisions based on group statistics is that education fundamentally remains something an individual must do for themselves, not something teachers do to students. Most current discussions of educational policy miss this point. The same thing is seen in American athletics; when the team of highly paid athletes does not perform up to expectations, they fire the coach. Another part of the game is the fact that while it ultimately doesn't matter where your knowledge and thinking skills come from once you have a position, having a degree is often important in gaining the position. Knowledge gained from the school of hard knocks is almost always useful, but they refer to it as hard knocks for a reason. Knowledge from the school of hard knocks may not always be accessible when it is needed and while it may be nice to understand things in hindsight, it is not until you can apply that understanding to current events that the knowledge is useful. So my advice to students is always: be greedy about your education, because knowledge, unlike prestige,power, or money, is not diminished when it is shared. Learn all you can from anyone you can, but ultimately, be willing to gather information and analyze things for yourself. Recognize when your information sources are feeding you their conclusions rather than data. Recognize that intelligence/expertise in one field doesn't always translate to expertise in other fields. As for the students who spent an entire year with me and didn't learn a thing, but instead treated my classroom like their own private episode of Jackass, at the end they are the ones who are poorer,not me. [/QUOTE]

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