Russell Tahkeal made a point of teaching his grandchildren the skills that Clarence taught him.
In other words, if you were not already religious at 14, what was the point of teaching you about religion?
The point of teaching a computer to master Pac-Man is to help it "think" and learn like a human.
While things here in the United States have deteriorated a bit of late, hopefully we have not reached the point of teaching our cowboys to rustle.
What it would actually do is destroy the point of teaching qualifications – which are supposed to provide a consistent, minimum standard for all teachers.
The program was created by Cameron J. Camp, an experimental psychologist who has applied childhood education principles to people often considered past the point of teaching.
I loved your idea that the main point of teaching was giving students permission to do the thing they love… Yes students are often very resistant to doing that.
It's conceivable that in a country riven by entrenched ideologies, a parable that makes a point of teaching nothing has intrinsic value -- as a vague form of protest, maybe, something akin to the Ramones ("I don't care about history..."...
What is the point of teaching ICT and the topics surrounding it if it is based on ancient ideas and concepts?
(I think the students did too but that's hardly the point of teaching, right? Wait. Strike that).
