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It seems to me that from the first grade, my friends and I considered most of our teachers idiots. Now I'm reading the insights of author Bill Knabe in a newsletter called Learnings.
Bill is a writes about the institutions he's known. His insights are not profound, but
they are to the point. He seems to have arrived at conclusions which many educators and academic administrators, I think, would agree with. But
I think they would also agree that they have failed to achieve the goals sets for them.
For example, the author writes:
I'd like to take all the institutions, change the laws and make them better places. I
would have the staff go to school about how the human mind works. I want the staff to love
the patients. That would change everything.
Bill Knabe's observations are found in his autobiography, The Inside World.
The educators he takes to task are educators who diagnosed Bill as "ineducable"—their word, if it is a word—with an IQ of less than 50.
If someone we classify as mentally incompetent can write and publish observations that are obviously correct, why can't people with twice and three times the mental power implement
them? Maybe we're taking directions from the wrong people.
Unfortunately, too, all of my teachers were not as mentally incompetent as I thought they were... or I might have preferred. |
