<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/ff03adac-5c09-44bf-bf99-0012261a03f2/F689203A-CD95-43B9-9621-0BD508EB317B/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.tcpd.org/Thornburg/Handouts/disintermediation.html" href="http://www.tcpd.org/Thornburg/Handouts/disintermediation.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.tcpd.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.tcpd.org/Thornburg/Handouts/disintermediation.html"><DIV>In the school of my youth, the bulk of the teacher's time was spent delivering information, and then testing us on the information that was delivered. Textbooks were designed to maintain information control in the hands of the teachers by insuring that the teacher's copy of the textbook had more information than the child's copy. This, coupled with a lockstep curriculum, created an environment where student inquiry was rare and occasionally treated as aberrant behavior.</DIV> <BR /><DIV> One consequence of this model was that many students disliked school, even if they still loved learning. Accordingly, schools (along with prisons and mental hospitals) became places where, if you didn't go, they came and got you.</DIV> <BR /><DIV> Even today, most teachers bemoan the fact that children spend more hours watching television than they spend in classrooms.</DIV> <BR /><DIV> From the standpoint of "information delivery" educators are tremendously outpaced by the combined horsepower of television and the Web</DIV></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/F689203A-CD95-43B9-9621-0BD508EB317B/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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