April 13, 2007
Just Scoring Points
More than 30 years of teaching biology at a large state university has led me to an unsettling conclusion: Professors and students are laboring under very different metaphors for education, and neither group is particularly conscious of that fact.
Let me illustrate my point with a story. I often try to make my students aware that metaphors, though commonly used to help us understand the unfamiliar, can also limit or distort that understanding. Last semester I was discussing metaphors
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