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Business at the University of Michigan
demolished a classroom building in
part because it wasn’t set up for maximum
group interaction.
The New Groupthink is also practiced
in our schools, via an increasingly popular
method of instruction called “cooperative”
or “small group” learning. In
many elementary schools, the traditional
rows of seats facing the teacher have
been replaced with “pods” of four or
more desks pushed together to facilitate
countless group learning activities.
Even subjects like math and creative
writing, which would seem to depend
on solo flights of thought, are often
taught as group projects. In one fourthgrade
classroom I visited, a big sign announced
the “Rules for Group Work,”
including, YOU CAN’T ASK A TEACHER FOR
HELP UNLESS EVERYONE IN YOUR GROUP HAS
THE SAME QUESTION.
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