Lessons in education
Last evening, i listened in on a dialogue about what we teach and how we evaluate progress. Some of the questions raised were valid, and I want to consider how the material we teach has direct implication on how we live.
Tesselations. A great game that math teachers attempt to corrupt. On the city bus, the seating plans are myriad. No three buses have an identical outlet. Is someone at the transit commission tesselating professionally? I can picture a workspace that contains a box of blocks. Think Lego, or Tetris. The goal is to place a certain number of “seat blocks” in the available space. For this worker, variety is a measure of creativity. Too bad that person never rides the bus.
There are seats that are unpleasantly placed, if the avoidance techniques of passengers are witness. Seats turned sideways to the direction of travel, or worse, facing the rear of the bus. Seats that are side by side with a rail on the aisle edge. Seats that have a step up/down. I’d be interested to see if there is a doctoral dissertation out there dealing with the sociological implications of bus seating in a post-SARS economy.
At least I didn’t require a dictionary at my seat when the “tesselation, reflection and transformation” topic was raised.
