Comments on: Relevance http://pugnaciousirishman.com/2008/12/16/relevance/ Wed, 30 May 2012 14:23:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Classroom Management: not for the Faint of Heart « The Pugnacious Irishman http://pugnaciousirishman.com/2008/12/16/relevance/#comment-552 Tue, 17 Feb 2009 00:38:40 +0000 http://pugnaciousirishman.wordpress.com/?p=402#comment-552 [...] Relevance [...]

]]> By: Rich Bordner http://pugnaciousirishman.com/2008/12/16/relevance/#comment-256 Wed, 31 Dec 2008 20:22:26 +0000 http://pugnaciousirishman.wordpress.com/?p=402#comment-256 Brad,

Yea…its weird what’s taken for “relevant” these days. The stuff that’s stood the test of time is where its at…

]]> By: Brad Ovenell-Carter http://pugnaciousirishman.com/2008/12/16/relevance/#comment-254 Wed, 31 Dec 2008 18:04:07 +0000 http://pugnaciousirishman.wordpress.com/?p=402#comment-254 Here, here. We’ve had this very conversation many times in our staffrooom. I went to a workshop and heard David Booth (OISE at U of Toronto) say that the best teacher in the world couldn’t make a dull book interesting. By dull, of course, he didn’t mean Homer or Horace; he meant whatever teen novel is in fashion at the moment; Twilight, I suppose. The teacher’s job is to show kids how Homer and Horace are relevant. the good ones can do that.

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