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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Hi professor.

I feel bad that you don’t get what this thread is about.

A lot of parents are still teaching their kids what to care about and look out for, what to weigh and balance as they enter adulthood. And I hope most of us recognize that if we offer suggestions to our children they often don’t have the independent knowledge to challenge what we tell them, go “do their own research,” or have some Jedi-esque passion well up in them to direct their lives.

Are you, or we, or society, interested in have our kids gain the skills to make a livelihood within? Are we sending them to compete in their profession as if it were a varsity sport? Are we sending them to a gatekeeping guild to be hazed and judged worthy? Are we sending them to be taught to think in ways that they have not considered before?

I believe it is all of these things, at various levels, and people can disagree about which is a priority.

I would hope not to have my children taught by someone who thinks pedagogy is a primarily about making life difficult for adolescents and seeing how they respond.

Basically, I can understand how a proud professional from a given field would have a hard time separating hazing would-be new entrants in their field from best practices in actual education. But since that’s not the right approach, I’m going to look out for me and mine.

Good luck as an educator and professional in your field. 
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But any learning involves receiving negative feedback! And being in a peer group that is stronger the oneself doesn’t mean unhealthy competition. I always think being surrounded by driven peers is one of the best things can happen in college!  So many American kids these days are so easy to be crushed by any negative feedback and peer pressure.[/quote]

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