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The Maths that is now taught in schools
bears no relation to how we were taught in schools
..... but I think it would be valuable if they
could learn about it ..... although I'm not
exactly sure how it
could be done because I know
in School E if they had English people coming
joining Maths lessons in a halfhearted sort
of way then I think there would be some resentment
in the Maths department......
• We're the lucky ones.
We get to do
Maths and we get to be more of ourselves ...
I 'ι
Il
doing Humanities and Community Education,
in that sense I'm lucky, I’
Il
getting a broader
view, but I think that for the purposes of the
course it would be more useful for the English
and Social Science people if they learn more about
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how Maths is taught in schools.
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Because it's very difficult to become
completely integrated in the school that you are
working in if you've no idea of the way one of
the main subjects is taught. .
... I'm finding
going to Humanities lessons far more valuable
than I would find a short talk on the Humanities
valuable in the sense of being interesting and
again you learn what the kids do when they're
not with you in a
If
ιuch more complete way than
you would learn with a seminar or a talk or whatever.
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..... apart from just the Alternative Course
there are lots of interesting lectures and things
going on in the normal course which I'm interested
in .
... this whole week I've been busy from
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9:00 to 5:00.
When I was at University
it was
you didn't feel like you had to go home and relax
so much, I really feel the need to go home and
unwind a bit and then you feel that you've got
to start reading again.
I think I've worked a lot harder than I
would if it was a normal lecture course
because
I could see that despite the quarrels we've had
about the relevance of the seminars
I can see
that there ought to be some kind of relevance
and so I've been tending to work towards that.
Well the relationship between what you do
in school and what you do in seminars is something
that is going to build up gradually .....