XPost: misc.education   
   From: hrubin@skew.stat.purdue.edu   
      
   On 2012-11-22, conklin  wrote:   
      
   > "Herman Rubin"  wrote in message   
   > news:slrnkaqf4k.q8a.hrubin@skew.stat.purdue.edu...   
   >>>> Until charter schools can't pick and choose their students any   
   >>>> comparisons   
   >>>> are unfair and irrelevant.   
      
   >> This is ridiculous and stupid.  Those of different abilities   
   >> SHOULD be going to different schools.  They also should not be   
   >> grouped by age, but allowed to go at the rates they can in   
   >> different subjects.   
      
      
   >     Have you ever read "Summerhill"?  Neil said he could teach anyone   
   > teenager everything he needed to get into Oxford in 3 years.  He actually   
   > did do that, many times.  He accepted into his boarding school students who   
   > refused to learn up until then, and let them sit around the same way until   
   > they started to learn. The longest holdout was 3 years.   
      
   Students who refuse to learn can change.  Students without the   
   ability to learn at a given pace cannot overcome that.   
      
   I have two children, both with doctorates.  Their abilities in   
   different subjects were often incomparable.  Attempts to teach   
   the one weaker in mathematics, who is still better than most   
   college students, the same way the better one learned were   
   unsuccessful.   
      
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   are those of the Statistics Department or of Purdue University.   
   Herman Rubin, Department of Statistics, Purdue University   
   hrubin@stat.purdue.edu         Phone: (765)494-6054   FAX: (765)494-0558   
      
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