In this less combative atmosphere, what do educators and others concerned about the direction of education consider the priorities for 1989.

Classical educators consider the Socrates method to be the best technique for teaching critical thinking.

He added that educators could not consider themselves successful "if we have children who may be literate but are inhumane in dealings with others."

The guess is, most educators would consider that that's enough.

And since some secular Israeli educators consider them offensive, they are not used throughout the system.

There are, however, considerable problems with such approaches, however desirable radical adult educators may consider them to be.

Still, many educators considered this ruling unique because it hinged on the experiences of a single, though enormous, school district.

But this measure omits a factor that educators consider a major influence on a child's school performance: the social and economic differences among students' families.

Many educators and students consider the senior year a waste of time for students whose minds are already focused on college.

They also say many educators, focusing almost exclusively on students' disabilities, consider them "victims" and do not try to develop their full academic potential.