They spit a bunch of facts at you. You absorb it like some kind of freakish sponge and squeeze yourself out on a test and then forget it a couple of weeks later.I thought it an apt metaphor. (Is it a metaphor?)
Saturday, January 10, 2009
Students as "Freakish Sponges"
I was watching this video about Project Based Learning created by students at the Minnesota New Country School. Towards the end (at 27:10), a student at the school describes traditional schooling like this
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If you say "children are freakish sponges," that's a metaphor. If you say "children are LIKE freakish sponges," that's a simile. But nowadays, most people just call both of them metaphors, so this is only if you want to pedantic (which perhaps you do, being a teacher.)
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