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To: Rapscallion
**...bring more high-tech to the classroom.** I respectfully disagree with your statement. I think a return to a Classical/Traditional Education model would solve a myriad of problems.
19 posted on 11/09/2011 5:50:57 AM PST by Daffynition (“There are no compacts between lions and men, and wolves and lambs have no concord.” ~ Homer)
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To: Daffynition
I think a return to a Classical/Traditional Education model would solve a myriad of problems.

My daughter attends a school along this model. There is no computer lab and no wi-fi. The facts that children need to master and the skills of logic and rhetoric are not technology-dependent. That having been said, a classical home-school program could probably be conducted quite well over the Internet, but the technology is not the content; it is merely a vehicle for delivering content, in the same way that a book or an instructor might be. Too much of the high-tech appliances I saw in my daughter's first (public) school was actually edu-tainment and/or babysitting.

Yes, in the upper grades students use computers for writing papers and for some research, but they don't use them in the classroom.

23 posted on 11/29/2011 1:49:18 PM PST by MissNomer
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