CRASSROOM: A mockery of pseudo-education

	Dust floats in space
	as students drift towards sleep
	and the instructor, inure to what's happening,
	rambles on about a pet research theme -

	"Now let’s examine this sentence structure
	and analyze the grammatical case
	you'll notice it is post-positional
	but look where the verb is placed. . ."

	Eyelids heavy from grammatical stupor
	my pencil records the teacher's Perfect Wisdom
	though nothing from the paper enters my head.

	So much to memorize
	that's trivial!

	So much that should be taught
	bypassed entirely.

	Why are classrooms 
	so crass?


Melissa: Too many classrooms are this way.

Satoru:   Particularly at universities, we have professors whose real forte is research – not teaching.

Tim:      Actually, good teachers are a rarity at all levels.

Liao:     There's something unpredictable about good teachers. The educational system is 
          basically designed to create McDonalds-hamburger-cook-instructors, not passionate gourmets.


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from _Crassroom Voices - Poetry, Art, & Dialogs about Education_ by T Newfields
SUMMARY: Some thoughts about McDonaldized mass education.
KEYWORDS: mind-numbing instruction, educational travesties, classroom malpractice

Author: T Newfields [Nitta Hirou / Huáng Yuèwǔ] (b. 1955)
Begun: 1996 in Shizuoka, Japan / Finished: 2020 in Yokohama, Japan
Creative Commons License: Attribution. {{CC-BY-4.0}} Granted

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