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Thanks for the response. But:

// Yes, teaching is a skill - but one that no longer has to do with reciting over the course material. //

..it never had anything whatsoever to do with just reciting over the course material.

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I don't disagree because your article lacked plausibility to the general public, or that it was rhetorically ineffective, or anything like that. Like I said, I would have wholeheartedly gone along with your article before I started teaching. I might even have wholeheartedly gone along with it if I had only taught at, say, community college, teaching adults.

Just like I was full of good advice on how to have great marriage before I got married. We disagree because we've had different experiences.

// but believe it or not, I have also taught people. //

No doubt you have a store of experiences which nobody else has had, and have seen points of view we have not. Please write about those, something you are actually more than an expert on, something which nobody else could say. This "we don't need traditional education" schtick is old and stale. Don't forget Peter Thiel actually ran an experiment over 10 years ago, paying kids $100,000 to not go to college. Give us something new and fresh.




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