Teaching - theaching in today's day and age

Teaching to the masses

Teaching to the masses is the way of teaching in today's day and age. What does this phrase mean?

It means teachers will teach to the general student. Not the top student. Not the bottom student. Btu the general average student, or as the grade depicts - the "C" student. The superior students will become bored, they will usually be able to figure out something to do while they wait for the class to go onto something different.

The bottom students, who are really the people we need to spend the most time on, haven't understood the last three things you've taught, they aren't going to ask the teacher any questions, and they aren't going to try harder unless they are asked and spoken to. In fact, most of the bottom students don't like school or teachers, and this teacher isn't much different as far as they're concerned. Teaching to this group would help the best, but they are the section that will, and probably have in their past, will slow down the class.

Teaching to the the masses does one thing: Raise up the middle to the upper, so that they can be bored with the new middle.

So who wins?

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