Education is boring and uninteresting only when it it put in the hands of
boring and uninteresting teachers.  Education is frequently boring because
we have a lot of boring teachers.  Learning is exciting and challenging and
rewarding.  But not many teachers know how to achieve learning in their
students.  So they fall back on being entertaining and call it education...
They buy into the idea that (yes) they ahve to copy MTV to keep students'
attention.  It's just becasue they don't know any better...

george

BTW a little competition from voucher schools and charter schools might wake
them up!

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P>At 09:31 01.10.97 -0500, you wrote:
>>Is "edutainment" another of those new buzz words?  It sounds as if education
>>can't get its job done unless it is entertaining.  Extrapolating, is it
>>something like education must copy MTV to get its job done?  Will somebody
>>explain the concept for me?
>
>The most likely explanation I have is that the concept 'education'
>apparently acquired the odor of being thoroughly boring and uninteresting.
>If you subscribe to that, but still maintain that there should be some sort
>of 'education', then you will look for ways to pep it up by blending it
>with 'entertainment'. Whether it's wise to try to compete with Disneyworld
>and the like in their kind of business is another question. I'd rather
>think that 'education', properly done, can be very exciting as of itself,
>and not at all boring. 
>
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