Monday, June 18, 2007
Chapter 15 BPR
As I was reading this chapter(p.237) I asked myself the question, Are we in the business to provide immediate gratification for students and does this prepare them for life? I feel like that we as a society rely too much on instant gratification. The current upswing in bankruptcies in the United States is an example. Too many people wanted to buy too many expensive houses and they didn't want to wait for them. We also see people with more debt than ever before. Are these traceable to our values that we instill in our kids in school?
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What you say is so true - our society as a whole is about instant gratification. For example, the slang we use for the USPS is "snail mail" in comparison to the ever fast and vast use of email. I would like to think we continue to instill some form of patience and diligent work in our students though. One way I see this work is through "wait time" as a teacher - not always giving the answer but waiting for it.
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