If I had had upwards of $100,000 at the start of my undergrad, I would have applied for admission at St. John's College. The Great Books curriculum appeals to me, and I strongly prefer the seminar-based pedagogy.
I don't regret the route I took, not least because I managed to graduate debt-free, and that gives me a lot more freedom today. But even though I've graduated, I've not given up on attending St. John's College. The Graduate Institute at Santa Fe is one of the ways I might spend my savings from my time teaching abroad. I'd have to teach for a couple of years to save enough to pay for it, but I could do that, and it's one of the few routes through grad school that would excite and interest me. I've read a lot of the Western Classics already--still not enough to satisfy me!--but everything in the Eastern Classics program would be new to me. Plus, I could do the degree in a year.
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Saturday, August 11, 2007
Wednesday, May 2, 2007
Ethics Is Hard
I began a TEFL (Teaching English as a Foreign Language) Intensive class on Monday. Today we had the opportunity to observe some TESL (Teaching English as a Second Language) classes. (The difference, by the way, is where the class are taught. TEFL classes are taught in non-English countries and TESL classes are taught in English countries). Awesome experience. I loved it. We get to tutor some of these students later, and I absolutely cannot wait. Besides the practical experience, though, we have classroom time, which tends to include lots of exercises. These mainly act to reinforce the theory in our texts. This, too, I find valuable.
Today, we had to match teaching materials with the appropriate skill level. One of the reading materials centered around ethics and moral philosophy. There was a brief description of the subject and some etymology of its terms. Apparently this stuff is tougher than I thought because I underestimated the classification of its difficulty, which was at the highest level; the others were lower, and I guessed all of them correctly. Everyone else, of course, not steeped in moral theory, correctly assessed the difficulty of the ethics material. A little bit of knowledge is a dangerous thing, right? Well, apparently, so is a lot of knowledge.
Today, we had to match teaching materials with the appropriate skill level. One of the reading materials centered around ethics and moral philosophy. There was a brief description of the subject and some etymology of its terms. Apparently this stuff is tougher than I thought because I underestimated the classification of its difficulty, which was at the highest level; the others were lower, and I guessed all of them correctly. Everyone else, of course, not steeped in moral theory, correctly assessed the difficulty of the ethics material. A little bit of knowledge is a dangerous thing, right? Well, apparently, so is a lot of knowledge.
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