[alt-photo] Re: DESICCATE! DESICCATE! DANCE TO THE MUSIC!

[Diana Bloomfield]

Hi Loris,

I agree that it's all about "how to present . . . "

I agree, too, that people should "learn something" about the chemicals  
involved when teaching this stuff, and most certainly in a beginning  
class.  Yes, absolutely.

And, obviously-- by your definition-- I'm not a "normal" person and  
most likely didn't have a "normal" high school education, either.   
Yeah, that's probably correct, though I've always thought I was pretty  
fortunate in that regard. ;)

Not a high school memory-- but I do remember in elementary school, I  
had a teacher once who would just stop the class at a moment's notice,  
and say "Why don't we just get up and dance?"  And then she'd put the  
needle on a record and have us all stand up and do our own individual  
versions of modern dance (though she didn't actually call it that),  
just swaying any which way to this music, all around the room for 15  
minutes or so-- and then we'd eventually get "back to work."  I loved  
that, and when I think of elementary school, that's most often what I  
remember.  Yeah, I probably didn't have a "normal" education, and I am  
ever so grateful for that.

Thanks, Loris.

~Diana
>
> Diana, in teaching, actually almost all is about "how to present the
> subject", not "the subject" - especially for this kind of very simple
> (really!) stuff which is definitely "within the reach of any normal  
> person
> with a normal (highschool?) education". Plus, I really don't like  
> the idea
> of letting people play which chemicals w/o learning something  
> (absolute
> minimum) about them...
>
> Thanks much again & Regards,
> Loris.
>
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