• No to dis-empowering students by spoon-feeding. No to students who practice self-disempowerment by requesting spoon-feeding.
• No to teaching-in-isolation. Do to teaching without an environment of exchange and community of support. No to practices promoting tunnel-vision within a teacher.
• No to promoting learning-in-isolation. No to disengaging students from their environments of exchange and communities of support. No to practices promoting tunnel-vision within a student.
• No to promoting learning-without-context. No to instructions without considerations to where the students come from, where they are, and where they go.
• No to education as a transaction. No to passive learning without engagement. No to passive teaching without empathy.
• No to rewards without responsibilities.
• No to grades as the sole measure of a person's worth.
• No to supply based solely on economic demand. No to customer satisfaction without human and community values. No to immediate gains without considered long-term sustainable benefits.
• No to life over principles.
Hiew Hong Liang
Lecturer
School of IT, Murdoch University