"You wouldn't understand until you've been there" is not a valid policy argument. Not everyone can be everywhere, and yet we still have to debate policy.
>Have you ever tried reading teachers’ magazines? Do you follow research in pedagogy or curriculum design?
No, but you did, and your deep assimilation of the insights therein has enabled you to substantively answer challenges such as the one I posed.
And it doesn't matter, but yes, I volunteered weekly for six years in a fourth grade classroom. I still wouldn't tolerate the response you just gave for anyone claiming to be an expert on some topic, including myself.
"Expertise" has to mean something other than "criticizing others for not having read the same books." It should mean a self-consistent, accurate, predictive worldmodel that can deftly show the errors of an invalid one without attacking the presenter.
>Have you ever tried reading teachers’ magazines? Do you follow research in pedagogy or curriculum design?
No, but you did, and your deep assimilation of the insights therein has enabled you to substantively answer challenges such as the one I posed.
And it doesn't matter, but yes, I volunteered weekly for six years in a fourth grade classroom. I still wouldn't tolerate the response you just gave for anyone claiming to be an expert on some topic, including myself.
"Expertise" has to mean something other than "criticizing others for not having read the same books." It should mean a self-consistent, accurate, predictive worldmodel that can deftly show the errors of an invalid one without attacking the presenter.