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Subject:Re: Help - my consultants cannot write! From:mattgras -at- comcast -dot- net To:Kat Kuvinka <katkuvinka -at- hotmail -dot- com> Date:Mon, 10 Oct 2011 14:51:24 +0000 (UTC)
Doesn't sound like teacher-bashing to me.
I've been dismayed, more than once, by candidates for tech writing positions who can't write -- and who come proudly bearing enthusiastic recommendations from teachers in prestigious tech-writing programs.
Don't know what those teachers were teaching: but it wasn't how to write.
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From: "Kat Kuvinka" <katkuvinka -at- hotmail -dot- com>
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Sent: Monday, October 10, 2011 7:21:42 AM
Subject: RE: Help - my consultants cannot write!
This should not be a forum for your political views and teacher-bashing.
Kathee
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> As for what you call the "wiring" of the brain, I know nothing about that,
> but I do know that the overarching purpose of formal education is to teach
> people how to think clearly and express themselves clearly. At least it used
> to be - God knows what they think they're doing nowadays. ÂMy personal view
> that is that many teachers Âare not all that capable of thinking clearly;
> they are too loaded up with dubious ideological baggage and political
> correctness. (Disclaimer: I'm married to a teacher who is a notable
> exception to this generality.)
>
> --
>
> Mike West
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