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This-essay is a7806142.htm which is available at the web-site www.essayz.com. See more notes at the bottom. Previous-Essay <== This-Essay ==> Following-Essay By-Months By-Years By-Words Webs of Like-&-Un-Like ESSAYS <==> Like-&-UN-Like This-One ========================================================== %RACING IN EDUCATION 780614 Racing is a popular sport in our competitive society --- for it clearly involves participants and spectators in seeing who can get ahead. Quickness is essential in racing of all kinds. The quickest becomes the winner. Usually we think of racing in terms of motion of people with or without vehicles (bicycles, skies, motorcycles, cars, airplanes, etc.) trying to cover a specified course in the shortest time. Racing can also be the essence of other activities; e.g., manufacturing and marketing a new product, courting a mate, getting a job, earning high grades, getting into graduate school, becoming a certified professional, getting a teaching appointment, etc. In each situation the quickest tends to win in our competitive society, even though the quickest may not be overall the most helpful or wisest. Quickness tends to be valued to the exclusion of other humane values. We tend to equate quickness with brightness or intelligence. Yet, the person who is quickest in catching on to traditional ways may be inept in creating new ways. The quickest person may be inept in recognizing collusions and/or in transcending them. The quickest person may destroy normal students self-confidence if asked to teach. Yet the races continue! Will the wisest and most helpful racers win? Most instructional programs are dominated by educational racers who see nothing wrong with failing a student who cannot complete the educational race in a specified time, but could with 1/4 more time. The student who cannot learn a specified course of material in a stated interval of time fails the race, and is not even listed in the "also ran" category. This is probably because only "winners" are permitted to become teachers, and the fastest racers are presumed to be the best teachers for all kinds of students. They find it difficult to educe students who are slow, creative in non- conformal ways, anti-collusive, profoundly perceptive, affectionate, and/or thoughtful. The racer has little patience with the slow student---regardless of what other desirable qualities are found in the slow student. Since most "good" teachers are racers, most slow students are not successful in gaining entry to the professions which require much formal education. If we are to benefit from the abilities of all our citizens, we must find ways to promote the development of those slow learners who have much to offer to a society which is sick of racing all the time. (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in www.essayz.com Search for Integrity and Honesty (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================
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