Museum Pass For Teachers
Jun 21st, 2005, 09:38 AM
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Because teachers get discounts for a lot of things. We got a great rate on hotel rooms in Chicago last month because one person in our party of 20 was a teacher, so we all got the educator's discount. She had to show her school ID to get that discount. I would guess most schools give these to their staff? Don't know if the Louvre offers a discount though.
Jun 21st, 2005, 10:00 AM
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No, j_999_9, they get the discount because they are teachers who will presumably go back and share the knowledge they have acquired with their students. That's kind of the purpose of being a teacher. The museum is doing a service to society if they give the educators a discount, because they are offering the contents of the museum to the students who learn vicariously through the teacher's experience.
And no, you should not get the discount if you just promise to tell all your freinds about it when you get home.
And no, you should not get the discount if you just promise to tell all your freinds about it when you get home.
Jun 21st, 2005, 10:09 AM
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beckers2482 has it mainly right - but they also do get the discount just becaue they get the discount. Your question sounded like you thought it was ridiculous that dgordon926 would ask this, and it's not. Teachers just do get discounts, and not always on educational things.
Jun 21st, 2005, 10:12 AM
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OK, then why should a teacher of, say, math, get a discount when there's no intent on that teacher's part to do anything but get into a museum on the cheap?
Then, the teacher presumably (your word) is sharing nothing with the students.
Then, the teacher presumably (your word) is sharing nothing with the students.
Jun 21st, 2005, 10:56 AM
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j_999_9, you must have been taught by non-well-rounded educators. As a member of the higher education community, I absolutely see the value of a math teacher going to an art museum. Unless there is some way you can prove absolutely that a math teacher will never discuss art with her students, your argument fails.
Education for the sake of education is to be admired, and teachers who share with their students from outside their primary discipline are to be commended as superior educators.
Education for the sake of education is to be admired, and teachers who share with their students from outside their primary discipline are to be commended as superior educators.
