Re: OT-ish: txt - Could it replace Standard Written English?

On Thursday 06 March 2003 11:42 pm, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 05:59:08PM -0500, John Cowan wrote:
> > H. S. Teoh scripsit:
> > > Hold on a sec here... I thought the original discussion was about
> > > teaching in schools (which I'm assuming to mean schools for minors). If
> > > you're talking about educating adults, that's a totally different
> > > barrel o' fish.
> >
> > In fact, I think not.  The same basic methods that work with adults are
> > also applicable to children, although you can give them a dose of rote
> > memorization as well to help them past the maggelity of English spelling
> > (whereas one may have to accept that adult learners will never get that
> > 100% correct or even 90% correct).
>
> Well, I still think there is a fundamental difference. With children,
> learning should be a very focused, very disciplined matter.  Basically,
> leverage their intense learning capacity. With adults, I think it would
> work better with more informal, less intense settings. The underlying
> methods may be similar or the same, but the emphasis is different.

You think so?  As a school pupil myself, I find I work better if the teacher
will interact with you more informally, answer your (sometimes slightly
irrelevant) questions, and soforth.  If the teacher just teaches, and you
just write, I find it hideously boring, and don't really learn anything.

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