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For Happy Horses and Humans

Submitted by jrlewis on Mon, 06/02/2008 - 5:49pm.

I think that most professionals are concerned with finding horses that have the potential to perform a desired set of tasks and then teaching them the necessary skills. This is a very limited education. To translate as exactly as possible into the classroom... The professional teacher's goal would be acheiving high SAT scores. With students who have basic analytical ability, and a specific amount of time and resources a professional could produce a class in which every student scores over 1200. This is an extremely limiting and narrow education. The students are only minimally prepared to deal with situations other than the SATs. They might not even be able to score well on the ACT!

However, this model is simple and embraces objective goals and time frames. Whether or not it is a good education is a different question.

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