Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!torsqnt!tmsoft!masnet!rose!david.lloyd-jones From: david.lloyd-jones@rose.uucp (DAVID LLOYD-JONES) Newsgroups: comp.edu Distribution: world Subject: Subtle Math Questions Message-ID: Date: Sat, 4 May 91 9:59:00 EST Organization: Rose Media, ON, CANADA Lines: 30 > >Fortunately, there are a few nice exceptions to these models, and >students at Waterloo are some of them. Here, students in the Faculty >of Mathematics who are enrolled in our Teaching Option alternate study >terms and work terms. During their eight study terms they work on >their undergraduate degree in Mathematics, and during their work terms >the do supervised teaching. At the end of their five year programme, >they have earned a degree called Bachelor of Mathematics, Honours, and >the right to attend a one term course at the nearby teacher's college >where they get their teaching credentials. > >This is a far cry from special courses for wannabes. > This is just one of many good things I've heard about Waterloo. Maybe you could make a regular thing of informing the net about the last twenty/thirty years of Waterloo's development and innovation. It seems to me that you guys have a lot to teach the world about education for the scientific/industrial age. -dlj. ---