Comments on: No dark sarcasm in the classroom

By: Dave

Dave — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 11:45:36 +0000

I think the point is that us disruptive types were in the wrong class. There is/was also a problem as the class hadn’t been devised and probably never will be.

‘School’ is a construct of the industrial ‘revolution’ and was designed to

/keep young people occupied while parents worked.
/produce more ‘skilled’ workers for the system.

Creative non word based education doesn’t exist yet despite the demand and us ‘creatives’ who struggle with word based learning will continue to suffer.

We like rebels as long as they are not bothering us.

We like creative thinkers as long as they are not bothering us.

Come he revolution…..

By: mrG

mrG — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 18:58:06 +0000

As one of the disruptive kids in class, I can’t say whether or not I was especially creative, but I can echo Jeff’s comments by saying that, from my student side of the situation, the teachers I most preferred were those that treated me more like a grad student and less like a “sit nice and pay attention” school marm. I dimly recall a parade of those latter types, but I’ll tell you, 40 years later, I remember the name, face and specific episodes of every last one of those who took interest in my unusualness.

By: Jeff Wise

Jeff Wise — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 14:35:26 +0000

I’d like to hear what teachers have to say about this. Many years ago I worked in daycare looking after five-year-olds, and while I appreciated the low-key, good-natured kids, I found that the challenging, often difficult ones (often boys) were the ones I engaged with the most and ultimately was the most fond of. To be sure this must have been a product of my personality as well as of theirs. So I think the like/dislike, creative/noncreative dichotomies might be too simplistic to have any real value.