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In reply to the discussion: About That ‘Common Core’ Math Problem Making the Facebook Rounds [View all]jobendorfer
(510 posts)It's the first thing that they teach you in teacher ed or clinical psych.
The way that you solve problems, or learned to solve problems, doesn't work for everyone.
You, as a teacher or therapist, have to join with each individual and help them understand the problem in a way
that works for *them*, not what works for you.
You need a lot of tools in your toolbag.
Which is why the factory approach to education ( all children are identical, and respond identically
to the same treatments ) doesn't work.
To turn a better writer than I to illustrate the point:
The most thoroughly and relentlessly damned, banned, excluded, condemned, forbidden, ostracized, ignored, suppressed, repressed, robbed, brutalized and defamed of all 'Damned Things' is the individual human being. The social engineers, statisticians, psychologists, sociologists, market researchers, landlords, bureaucrats, captains of industry, bankers, governors, commissars, kings and presidents are perpetually forcing this 'Damned Thing' into carefully prepared blueprints and perpetually irritated that the 'Damned Thing' will not fit into the slot assigned it. The theologians call it a sinner and try to reform it. The governor calls it a criminal and tries to punish it. The psychologist calls it a neurotic and tries to cure it. Still, the 'Damned Thing' will not fit into their slots.
-- Robert Anton Wilson