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dishonest questions in schooling

Name: Anonymous 2011-03-16 4:36

There is a bad element in pedagogy, and that is the use of dishonest questions.  For instance, if a student is given the problem to determine "which of these is greatest" (perhaps a set of expressions using logarithms) but the desired answer is that, in fact, there is no greatest value because they are equivalent, then the poser of the problem has committed a moral offense -- the poser has led the student to believe a falsehood:  that there is one that is greatest, and so the poser has put the student on a fool's errand.  Shameful.  Shameful.

Name: Anonymous 2011-03-16 22:58

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