[LINK] Library naming (was Apple iPads for Victorian School Students)

[Bernard Robertson-Dunn]

To me a library is a place where you can go for information. It can aid 
learning but education is far more than learning.

The "modern" approach to education seems to be shifting too much to a 
"pull" model of student centric learning.

At least some of the education process (quite a lot, IMHO) should be 
about teaching, where a person with knowledge and expertise interacts 
with students in individual, guide, "push" and feedback mode.

To me it just doesn't make sense to me to expect an ignorant (which they 
have to be by definition, if they are being educated) student to know 
what and how to be educated. They don't know what they don't know. And 
even more important, they don't know what they need to know and in what 
order.

You can't replace a teacher by a computer, the internet, a book, or a 
library, if you want students to be educated in a serious subject.

BTW, as it's Friday:

What's the difference between education and training?

You know when your daughter comes home and says: "today we did sex 
education, tomorrow we're doing training".

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Regards
brd

Bernard Robertson-Dunn
Canberra Australia
email:	 brd at iimetro.com.au
website: www.drbrd.com