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:: Monday, November 29, 2004 ::
'The Mind at Work: Valuing the Intelligence of the American Worker' by Mike Rose By MARVIN HOFFMAN, Houston Chronicle
More recently there have been enlightened efforts to acknowledge the importance of intelligence and cognition in voc/tech education, of the many opportunities to bring together literacy, math and the practical arts. However, the old grooves are cut deep, and enormous opportunities for breaking down ancient barriers go unexploited. Vocational knowledge is not perceived as valid knowledge, and the valuing of the intellectual over the physical remains in place, even in the heart of the institutions devoted to the vocational.------------------------------------------- posted 7:14 AM :: reference link ::
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