unfortunately, that’s true. Many teachers refuse the idea of change. They are not convinced that their method of teaching was not the perfect one and it needs a lot of improvement.
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Thanks for your comment. Exactly, teachers or educators have great effects on their students and they way the see or react in the future. I think you had kind of a different experience in your Master’s defense, but the good thing is that it changed your view for learning.

Thanks for your comment. I really like the idea of students as teachers and teachers as students. I think it is true to a great extent, I can remember that I have learned many times from students’ questions. By thinking in their questions, I would notice relations or points that I did not take care of before.

Standardized tests are to blame but also the way the teacher addressed the problem is to blame. As you said, it is hard when a student thinks out of the box and gets this response.
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Thanks for the important issue you brought to attention. As a father, I totally agree with you that it is very hard to raise kids to be critical thinkers. It is not easy at all to raise up kids that can be self-dependent and who can take decisions whenever they have to.
However, I think the dilemma is easier in schools. Teachers are required to make students eager to learn and think. They need to spark their curiosity towards learning. But, they are not responsible for all aspects in the child’s personality, parents are. I believe it is much harder to be a good parent than being a good teacher. I can see that many excellent teachers are not good parents.

Thanks for the post and the issue you brought up. When it comes to history, there is a famous quote that says “History is written by the victors”. Many of the history stories we know, are incomplete. Certain incidents were omitted or flipped for the sake of the history writer’s. However, in the case you mentioned, it is very different. Two parties wrote two different tales of the same story. I want to let you know that this is exactly the case in many middle eastern countries till today.
Back to the post, I had the same inquiry about how the post could relate to critical pedagogy. I like the answer you provided that it is the educational system which determines how students should think in problems from different views and to have their own view of the problem.

I like the example of advisers and students. Many advisers really direct their students to certain ways in research or certain ways of addressing some problems. I think it is a matter of trade-off. Advisers still need to “advise”, however they need to listen to their students. Sometimes, students have better ideas and this could come from the fact that they are less experienced in these topics and so are less saturated with the conventional ideas. Advisers could make best use of their students by giving them more freedom in thinking and trying their ideas.
BTW, engineers might not be able to get any Nobel prize as it is not offered in Engineering, so no need for them to try and risk :).

You are lucky to have such an experience. I was reading your post and trying to remember my childhood. This was also long long time ago for me, the thing I remembered is that my dad was eager to teach me reading before going to school. I’m the oldest of my siblings, I had not such your experience. However with the help of my dad I was able to do this. Nothing was special about my elementary school, except I remembered that my first and second grades’ teacher was so kind.
I like the example you gave about teachers who led you to the well and showed you how to draw the water. I think this is the most important from every teacher. The teacher should instill in his students the passion of learning and guide them to be better learners.

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The book I mentioned discussed some ethnicity groups but I was not able to list them here as recommendations were specific to each group. One of the blogs this week, which I agree with, suggested giving professors courses or workshops to let them know about each ethnicity or minorities as described by the blog. I think this could be a solution to the ethnicity problem. And of course waiting for your comment tomorrow about disabilities.

Thanks for your reply, I believe that these are only examples or the most obvious examples and by discussion we can come up with more information or views.