Opinion in regards to the thread started by sans recourse:
I commented, impolitely, to the moderator that the thread had 5 stars and drew this response:
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Originally Posted by weishaupt1776
was it rated at the onset when the thread was focused or 17 pages deep?
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I sincerely apologize.
I
am new.
If you and perhaps the thread starter were to edit out my tangential postings, I myself would be appreciative.
(I still have not figured out how to delete posts myself.)
I have probably mistaken the tangents for the topic, and contributed to the tangents.
If I do not put materials out, I won't be taking full advantage of the learning opportunity.
I do know that the more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.
I also know that a lot of what I put out in an effort to actively and honestly participate in an interactive forum may often likely be opinionated, egotistical to some degree, knee-jerk vindictive in some cases, and incorrect.
If there is anyone here who can honestly say otherwise about their own participation, then it will be those who are extremely diligent in their research, study, and application of honest wisdom prior to their posting.
In my eagerness to participate, I forego, to some degree, extremely scrupulous and thoroughly diligent scholarship, in order to be timely involved in active participation.
I do try not to contribute fluff. If fluff has appeared by my hand, it is more than likely an honest error.
I have studied that thread from start to finish, and have followed it closely.
(I have also read and studied quite a bit of the entire forum posts old and new, as well as the articles and downloads.)
As that thread grew, I reviewed it from start to finish many times, partially in order to keep from veering off topic, partially to study, the information, and partly to study the process and nature of the progress of this particular example of what is a fairly new type of human communicative endeavor (interactive internet learning forum discussions).
That thread has had 4212 viewings as of today, and 163 responses, bunny trails and all!!
The originator,
and the moderator, as well as the participants and contributors ought rightfully to take quite a bit of deserved esteem (or pride, for lack of a better term), in the amount of interest, participation, and activity that their initial, and ongoing efforts have generated.
The originator of the forum topic apparently initiated (either by design or by fortuitous happenstance) a socratic method for either teaching a subject or for thus allowing a subject to become illuminated.
I do not know whether the author knew the answers prior to setting the task, and was teaching, or if the author was also seeking answers, or both, or neither.
When a teacher chooses this method for bringing to light specifically pre-determined (known to the teacher from the outset) answers, to the question posed or problem presented, or task assigned, then it is the burden of the teacher, by pro-active guidance, to keep the students on point, either through skillfull use of the socratic method itself, or by abadonong it for a another approach, if perhaps another approach might seem better fitted to produce the desired behaviors.
If the teacher chooses the socratic method, and thus initiates a course of study, and then abandons his students for a significant amount of time, and leaves them to their own devices, it will naturally follow that the students will veer off course.
This will happen with adult learners as easily, if not more so, than with immature learners.
Is this nessesarily bad?
One might ask the over 4000 viewers of the topic.
Perhaps the teacher had not intended a socratic approach, and had merely presented the subject, said "learn," and then left the student to study.
This is also a very viable method of teaching and learning, however it is quite open-ended, and the teacher should, at least, only feign horror at what the student shows the teacher when the teacher returns to examine the results of the study.
Perhaps the originator might at this point provide some kind of summary or cloture, and the moderator consider closing the thread, and then the originator and moderator, editing it into something more definitive and educational than what has overall resulted.
As the moderator pointed out either in that thread or elswhere, with the onset of a national ID card being driver licence based, this traffic stop, traffic court, right to travel business is not something to be taken lightly.
(I still maintain that the bottom line in all of this is the utensil that the police officer is resting his hand on when he approaches your travel thingy, and that ultimately this is what is likely to have to be dealt with.)
If my posts are not supposed to be long, I need to be told.
My opinion that's all.