
Anyway, I had a request from one of my students telling me that many of their other teachers give them review tests or questions to prepare them for exams. This is not something I am a large beliver in, although I certainly do not fault my peers for using whatever tools they have to reach their students. But it got me thinking, why don't I like this idea? And I think I have figured it out. I don't like this idea because it takes away initiative from the student. Almost all adult education theory postulates that students should largely be allowed to guide their own learning. Plus, I worry that by doing such a large amount of guiding that I am not preparing my students to go onto University, where they are absoluetly not going to get this kind of help.
I did tell the student I would prepare a list of topics that may be on the test, but that they would be responsible for developing their own study plan, which I believe is fair, but is less than what they wanted. So tell me, am I being unreasonable?
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