A Bit Of Sense

Enjoyed reading a piece by Jonathan Zimmerman in the latest on-line edition of The New York Review of Books, entitled Why Is American Teaching So Bad? He's the Professor of Education and 
History at the Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development at NYU, and, given how out of touch those who teach teachers so often appear to be, I was agreeably surprised at the simple good sense of much that he finds to say. The last three paragraphs string together a sequence of observations that make mincemeat of the educational orthodoxy that surrounds me, and help me understand the woefully weak foundations on which said orthodoxy rests. It's something of a relief, though hardly a surprise, to have someone beside me articulating so clearly the emperor's lack of suitable garments.