tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8961414384428742043.post7052804353358445195..comments2015-05-02T06:28:10.266-07:00Comments on Little Men: School's Failure to Motivate StudentsBethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16669363385186796371noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8961414384428742043.post-75868867491953160242011-07-29T18:10:45.688-07:002011-07-29T18:10:45.688-07:00This reminds me of French class with...what was hi...This reminds me of French class with...what was his name...Squirrely little guy, taught French and Latin...anyway. I had a perfect grade in that class not because I developed a deep appreciation or mastery of French but because the dude's tests were cut and paste directly from his notes, everything in the same order as it was written on the board a few days before. The only thing he tested was my visual memory, which got quite good by the end of the year.<br />I hated math for that very reason. There was seldom any apparent use for any of it. I only began to develop a wary appreciation of math when bits of it became applicable in real life.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com