Well, there is "lifelong love of learning". Mathematics fills me with awe and wonder, because I cannot even add up straight, and grammatical writing makes me very happy.
Seriously, though, after another week of supervising student teachers on placement (I go around and around singing miserere mei, deus) I think mission statements like this are the well-intentioned flagstones of the road to hell. They reinforce the belief -- very common among educators, especially ed. dept people, that education is something in and of itself, separate from any sort of content. I've seen so many lessons where classes full of rowdy children are managed expertly, but nothing is conveyed. That's not school. It's open prison.
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Date: 2010-01-16 06:29 pm (UTC)Seriously, though, after another week of supervising student teachers on placement (I go around and around singing miserere mei, deus) I think mission statements like this are the well-intentioned flagstones of the road to hell. They reinforce the belief -- very common among educators, especially ed. dept people, that education is something in and of itself, separate from any sort of content. I've seen so many lessons where classes full of rowdy children are managed expertly, but nothing is conveyed. That's not school. It's open prison.