Frazz by Jef Mallett for October 18, 2016

My daughter had teachers like this in primary school. Adrian & Bronwyn take a bow for setting her on the path to greatness. I am forever in your debt.

Now that’s novel. You may want to watch out with that. ;)

Obviously a fantasy world.

I have a feeling Jeff Mallett is anti-Common Core.

Emphasis on “common”

That’s refreshing

Socrates was the first . . . and almost the last.

Teach your kids to THINK!!?? Heresy, pure and simple. Just give them a digital tranquilizer and send them off to skul! Really, parents it’s YOUR job now to teach them how to think and plan.

Quote: Education is a state-controlled manufactory of echoes. – Norman Douglas

Alright, comicsfan’s rant about public schools should be due any second now…

Hmmm, 1 week out of 39 spent learning to think. Brings to mind the old rhetorical question “What’s in the other 56/100% of Ivory Soap?”

I think the word balloons are backwards in the second panel…..Oh, and common core was put together by individual states….It’s not a Federal take over of the education system……republicans lie.

Wow, I had to read almost to the bottom before someone made this political.

Quote: Think for yourselves, and allow others the privilege to do so too. -Voltaire

I was very fortunate that I had a mother (also a teacher) who taught me how to think and how to learn. I have managed to pass that skill along to my daughter, who did not do well in school, but has LEARNED so much on her own. She was a “different learner” so the rigid structure of schools did not work for her, but did not stop her from learning.

Hummm. Those big strong shiny expensive gold nose rings work well for those kids who do differently and are equipped with rope…

I’ve a friend who teaches. The schools use the lowest bidder to create content for the classrooms—and these days content has to be on standardized test material only. I was appalled when I saw one of the lessons he had to teach on the subject of paragraph construction. I kept asking him if he was sure it wasn’t an example of how NOT to do it. He and the other teachers are stretched too thin with their other tasks to create content themselves.

Thank you. I found it generally true that JC students do better in the upper division than those who started at the univ. level (often taught by bored graduate students).

Yep, I wondered what was taking him so long

Hey, thet’s the way they taught us at MIT in the olden days… When I got out of there, I didn’t know how to do anything, but I sure as hell could figure it out.

Good luck with that!!

No one caught the not-subtle nod to CORE? Night Gaunt? Helllllo!

Wish every teacher in the country would read and heed today’s strip.