Aussie wrote on Oct 13
th, 2015 at 3:59pm:
Quote:Why would I need to google something I know so much about because I've studied it in yr 11 and 12 as well as at Uni?
Amazing.
What was the course you did at Uni, and what did you graduate as? So far, you have told us that at Uni you studied Law, philosophy, criminology, middle class domestic violence, HR, and now Maths/Science.
Now now, Aussie. I'm sure Maria did learn these things in school. She seems to have no idea, however, that a few things have changed since then - among them the names we use to describe important fields of study like algebra.
Now if Maria doesn't understand basic changes like that, how is she possibly able to be trusted as an expert on maths education?
Longy, of course, we know. He claimed to have been so good at maths he didn't
need to go to uni. The "professors", if I recall, were too stupid. Because of this, Longy granted a PhD to himself.
Maria and Lisa, of course, could not possibly be as dumb as that. We don't expect everyone who comments on education with such inflexible and dogmatic views to be an expert on key learning areas and teaching methods. But do you know? You'd expect them to have some basic knowledge - not much, just a bit.
Personally, I'm a fan of the good old days when people didn't know something, they didn't say anything. But that's just me.
Maria and Lisa seem to be of the school that if you don't know something, you make something up and hope your audience is too dumb to notice.
Longy had a saying for this - he was, in his own words,
that good.