Monthly Archives: June 2006

Macrorie on the Socratic Method

Posted on June 27, 2006 by Michael

From Uptaught: A couple of years ago I attended a general education conference where a young leader of a new school at the University of Chicago told of his supposedly radical methods of teaching. He had found the Socratic method. … Continue reading →

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burn!

Posted on June 26, 2006 by Michael

Graduate school needs grades to determine whom to admit. Nonsense. What graduate school needs is an expectation that the students it accepts will do independent, mature work. The last place to find out whether they can do that is a … Continue reading →

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Macrorie: Student as Slave

Posted on June 26, 2006 by Michael

In my previous post, I discussed Macrorie’s book Uptaught and how, in the chapter “Discipline,” the student essays didn’t have the criticism (or analysis) that I would like: they were enjoyable to read, but that’s it. I just read a … Continue reading →

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Macrorie’s “Third Way”

Posted on June 25, 2006 by Michael

I’ve read about a quarter of Ken Macrorie’s Uptaught, and I like some of the sentiments he expresses. For example, he gives an example of how a textbook might start: If you are a student qho desires assistance in order … Continue reading →

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Keeping Young Persons in Line

Posted on June 25, 2006 by Michael

This way of keeping young persons in line, of making sure they do not speak in their own voices of anything that counts for them, goes back to Roman times when schoolboys declaimed on proper topics in weekly themes. It … Continue reading →

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