RE: What, Me Think? (was RE: clarification needed)

["Holder, Luanne" <Luanne_Holder -at- syntelinc -dot- com>]

	Walter Crockett wrote ".... that students in that decade no longer
> enjoyed thinking. In fact, he said, many students became downright
> indignant
> if an assignment required them to think, rather than to regurgitate the
> facts he handed them. " 
> 
	To give you a ray of hope, my daughters routinely receive
instruction in critical thinking skills in school. They are in the third and
fourth grade. If educators forgot to teach and encourage these skills in the
past, at least they are attempting to correct the problem now.

	As far a punctuation is concerned, my fourth grade daughter is
required to write all of her assignments in complete sentences with correct
punctuation. In fact they are so strict that if she forgets to capitalize
properly or forgets her ending punctuation, often the answer is marked
incorrect regardless of the content (which might be taking the concept of
attention-to-detail at bit too far).

	LuAnne Holder in Troy, MI

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