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Originally Posted by Cyberman tM
Why does it have to be either/or?
If a teacher scares the students away from a topic, how can he teach it to them?
(Most?) people aren't automatons where you simply insert another punchcard and they follow the instructions inscribed. You have to get them to want to do what you want them to do.
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Because it seems to me that relatively few people leave school with a love of mathematics, and carry on studying the subject for pleasure, and yet it's rare to see remarks that this indicates that maths teaching is failing. For some reason, though, many more people seem to believe that a goal of English Lit teaching should be to instil a love of reading, rather than simply a knowledge of English literature. I find it a slightly curious dichotomy.