Friday, January 12, 2007

WHAT IS TO BE DONE : WHAT CAN WE DO?

Yesterday I enjoyed a wonderful 6 hours with postgraduate students. They worked my poor brain hard and just to "keep up" with younger students is a challenge. But I maybe have learnt a few things with them. Today I reflect.

At the end of those seminar-type meetings the main questions were something like a call for cooperation between generations. The call was also concerned with the basic questions of our time : "What is to be done"? And ; "What can we do together?"

Thinking about that, last night, just before sleep, I realised that I was paid for my work and those students, educating me, were paying.

Indeed what is to be done if we are to work well together!!!!!
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Anonymous said...

When I was a postgraduate student, I spent considerably more than 6 hours with my colleagues. May I be frank? And just a little arrogant?

What they were capable of in comparison to undergrads was... not a great deal different. They were, for the most part, equally blinkered, equally ignorant, equally uncritical. Our respective first degrees had obviously taught 97% of us nothing about learning or about education, and this despite the fact that we were all experienced teachers. We all, with one exception, passed our MAs.

What am I to make of that?

14:47
Anonymous said...

A paper aeroplane, perhaps?.

15:24
zola a social thing said...

Yeps! OK.
The six hours i talked about was just yesterday and I blogged it before it became lost in the business of "other things". That was all.
I am with you in your thoughts and feelings - maybe more than you know.

But there are some teacher-student and student-teacher learning things that do work well. I am sure you know this as well, if not better than I.

I have played a role ( whatever that was) in helping "doctors" become Phds. The same kinds of questions arise.

So many Phd students ( that were successful) used to say that they wanted to get back to everyday language and talk.

I agreed and disagreed.

Sori for a serious response but there you have it and there it is.

15:57
zola a social thing said...

Bold Scot ? : Come fly with me come fly and fly again.
Like that I did.

15:59
zola a social thing said...

Hello Szwagi : Just realised that my response was still was way away from your points.

better said : I am an arrogant chap quite often and I need good company.

16:22
zola a social thing said...

Bold Scotty : Would you prefer Fire? Wind? Rain and water?
Remember that paper game you do.

16:24
Anonymous said...

Sorry, the weather here is the foulest of the foul and, to stop me concentrating on the imminent departure of the roof, I am forced to imbibe some of that Scottish happy juice.
As WC Fields said :
'Always carry a flagon of whiskey in case of snakebite and furthermore always carry a small snake.'
Hic.

23:27

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