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savebigbird

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3. I enjoyed reading that.

Reply to TexasTowelie (Original post)

Sun Jun 2, 2013, 01:19 PM

Jun 2013

Students are humans: always growing, always malleable. Who they are and who they will become are a reflection of what they are exposed to. If it is constant drill and testing, I fear what they will become. I really do.

And yes, the statisticians will never fully grasp human development. They are attempting to represent something which is dynamic and qualitative as quantitative data. It is not accurate.

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Seeds, Storms and Transitions [View all] TexasTowelie Jun 2013 OP

recently read of some hundreds-year-old seeds frozen in the arctic (or somewhere cold) that HiPointDem Jun 2013 #1

I think that our students are pretty hardy also. TexasTowelie Jun 2013 #2

I enjoyed reading that. savebigbird Jun 2013 #3