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Importance of a Teacher Planning Curriculum

eingartner likens many courses to mystery drinks that must be quaffed, and whether the course is kindergarten or Astrophysics 401, this is true in many, too many, cases. "You'll graduate if you're still standing after having downed about 40 of them" (14). His point is that the courses may prepare the student for the more negative aspects of work, but they do not prepare the student for the things teachers say they are preparing the students for. To quote a famous cartoonist, "School is good, school is important. Schools prepare you for the future. By sitting quietly in neat rows for long periods of time doing exactly what you are told in school, you are preparing to sit quietly in neat rows for long periods of time doing exactly what you are told as an adult" (Groening, chapter 2).

Weingartner further notes that "our tests are designed to have students tell us what we have told them" (16). This is teaching students how to listen, remember, and repeat, but it is not teaching them how to think. Schools include "higher level thinking skills" in their objectives, yet do not include the lessons to teach them, most likely because these skills such as analysis and giving a thoughtful, provable opinion, take a lot of time and do not always produce opinions the

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