| | Well, yes, it was nice of him to say all of that. About 10 years ago, on an information systems project, I met a guy working on a Ph.D. in Education, making great headway in the "new" field of exceptional (gifted) pupils. Himself a gifted learner, to my reply that I thought that there were exceptions to the egalitarian rule, he said that he had never heard of any and only now (1995) were there multiple options for teachers wanting to pursue gifted education.
As Sowell pointed out, children can, and do, teach children. Here in the People's Republic of Ann Arbor, we have at least two such programs.
Community Leaning Post
625 N. Main (Ann Arbor Community Center), Mailing address: P.O. Box 7674, Ann Arbor 48107 [map]
769-0288
U-M student volunteers tutor elementary, middle, and high school students. Family nights integrate students, parents, and teachers into learning teams. All programs free (donations welcome). www.sessiondesigns.com/clp
E-mail: LeaningPost83@msn.com
Mentoring programs, using student tutors as well as parents, college students, and community member volunteers, to provide support in terms of reteaching and enrichment, will be implemented in each middle school building.
Middle School Review Steering Committee
http://msreview.aaps.k12.mi.us/fin_report.html
Imagine that! I mean, ok, maybe college students, being "almost" teachers can tutor high school kids. But in the other case, we have middle schoolers teaching each other. So, what is it that a seventh grader can do that a state-certified teacher cannot? Or, what is that teachers do that seems so similar to children playing school?
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