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Old 03-07-2006, 11:40 AM   #43 (permalink)
robbdn
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listening to it now... I'm not liking his tone of voice... it could be very intimidating to a student... he sounds angry, cynical, and jaded, and I wouldn't like to be taught by a teacher like that. He presents it as though he knows all the answers, and it does sound very one-sided...

He is way too passionate to present a sound, reasoned argument... passion better suits a politician than a teacher, and his lecture sounds more like a speech than a lecture...

Listening to the part about Israel now... not impressed with the way he's handling this... he's allowing himself to be put on the defensive, he's overstating his points, he's relying too much on speculation. The part about 9/11, he's allowing himself to sound like an apologist when he's probably not. He's jumping all over the map, from topic to topic, and never ties it back together that he's trying to make a point about how peace cannot come from war, and it's really no wonder that he was misunderstood.

Now that he's talking about globalization, he's calmed down, which really changes his ability to teach rather than preach... end of tape... too bad...

That said, I agree with the teacher quite often. The way the student handled it (including altering the tape?), the way the school board handled it, were all wildly inappropriate. There were a ton of mistakes made by everybody. If I were the principle, I would've sat down with the teacher, this recording, and tried to teach the teacher, not punish... this event had the promise of a grand learning experience for everybody involved, and it was squandered on politics.
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