Talk:Education analogy

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Contents 1 Study 1.1 Generative questions originating the article 1.2 Key points to make 1.3 Key resources to draw on 1.4 Scope and tone of coverage 2 Talk 2.1 Further analogies

Study

Generative questions originating the article

Key points to make

Key resources to draw on

Scope and tone of coverage

Talk

Further analogies

I have a series of analogies to offer moving from the most concrete out toward the most abstract.

lesson plans are to eduction as disease is to medicine

This is the most concrete. Once employed by particular school districts, a teacher is handed lesson plans. Once diagnosed with a disease, the doctor prescribes medicine. Do what you are told, passively.

action research is to education as disease is to medicine

Especially with today's information technologies, the patient, once diagnosed has a plethora of resources to become informed while from medicine's/a drug company's perspective, finding and/or improving on medicines ensues.

professionalism is to education as disease is to medicine

Medicine is prescribed by the doctor; education is prescribed by the teacher.

epidemiology is to education as disease is to medicine

Toward the more abstract, disease is a grand scale enterprise and at this point the broader notion of it requires exposition. Thus education. This completes the cycle/circle as will StudyPlace with its "academic study of education". In the end, it is about a science/discipline using itself to study itself. Patnicholson 18:12, 17 November 2006 (EST)