Two Kinds

There are those who appreciate binary dimorphisms, and those who don't. For the former, here is a piece on current educational trends in the media and politics by Marion Brady:http://www.truth-out.org/marion-brady-how-ed-reformers-push-wrong-theory-learning63596
"Teaching, many long-time teachers know, isn’t a simple matter of transferring information into a kid’s head, but a far more complex, multi-step process. The teacher has to (a) “get inside” that head to figure out what’s thought to be true, right, or important, (b) understand the kid’s value system well enough to offer ideas sufficiently appealing to warrant taking them seriously and paying attention, (c) choose language or tasks that question old ideas and clarify new ones, (d) get feedback as necessary to decide how to proceed, (e) load the whole process up with enough emotion to carry it past short-term memory..."