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16-06-2019, 19:23 #41
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Re: What should kids learn in school?
You are quite right Messor.
I dont mind admitting that when I left university the my employers were doing all the thinking. When I started
my own business I had to learn to think all over again. Fast - very, very fast. Think and scheme and plot and plan every single day or run the
risk of failure. I had no email, google, accounting packages, online banking or any of the electronic tools I have today.
Teaching my children how to think for themselves was very difficult with TV, video games and the like.
I once asked a good friend who was the head of math`s at a well known school what her biggest problem was with today`s scholars.
Instant gratification was her reply. The answer is either instant or they simply lose interest. Holding a scholars attention during a double
period of math`s must have been extremely difficult.
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17-06-2019, 15:56 #42
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Re: What should kids learn in school?
Good question OP.
Sir Ken Robinson, during his TED Talk (Changing Education Paradigms), said:
The problem is, that the current system of education, was designed and conceived and structured for a different age. It was conceived in intellectual culture of the enlightenment, and in the economic circumstances of the industrial revolution
I believe we have a system of education that is modeled on the interests of industrialism, and in the image of it.
How long till kids getting a summer job flipping burgers, go the way of the dodo? Fast food vendors are already seriously looking at replacing staff with damn vending machines. Sure, machines can't do everything, humans will always be required, but how many will that be, out of an estimated 7+ billion people? It must be absolutely terrifying to be a parent in this age.
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17-06-2019, 19:13 #43
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Re: What should kids learn in school?
With 4 kids currently in school, I can tell you a few things about what happens there.
Basically the kids are tought to obey orders and NOT to think for themselves.
They are fed a buch of commie propaganda, and every time this is questioned, the teacher says "well, I disagree too, but this is what is prescribed and what you will be examined on". The propaganda is weaved into all sorts of subjects, even maths.
The people who created the official state syllabus are obviously very confused. Not even basic maths is arranged in logical order.
The teachers are basically treated like crap and paid peanuts at state schools. It amazes me that we still have a few good dedicated teachers. I would not last long under their typical working conditions.
During holidays and over weekends, I try to teach my kids to think for themselves and to work for things they want. Basically the opposite of what they have gotten used to.
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17-06-2019, 19:42 #44
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17-06-2019, 20:03 #45
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Re: What should kids learn in school?
I'm in the lucky position of teaching woodwork so I don't have to deal with all the crap content other teachers do. I spend a lot of time talking to my students during practical periods and much of that is about the country, economics, family values etc. That is what I love about my subject, we have the freedom to talk about stuff most other teachers cannot.
Unfortunately we do not have enough time to teach kids everything which is why it is so important that parents do some teaching as well. In fact, they should teach even more than we do but on the important stuff like you mentioned, critical thinking, values etc. We cannot teach children values, we simply do not have enough time and by the time we get them, they have already been programmed. In some cases this good, in some, not so much. If parents do not teach their kids values and morals, the world will. If parents would take more responsibility for educating their children, we would have a much easier job. Kids act out, we get blamed, simple as that. Parents and kids take very little responsibility for their own actions and inadequacies and nowadays it's easier to point the finger than to do some introspection.
I love my job, it's my calling so I'm all into it but it is not easy. People always joke and say we work half day and have four vacations. During those vacations we also have training that we have to attend, parents never see that. It takes a week for me to shut off, to relax. The second I rest, the third week I start working on the new term. In other words, a one week vacation is not enough, you don't shut off.
It is extremely rewarding but it is emotionally more taxing than you can imagine. It's one of those things you need to do to understand. We need vacation more than people can ever imagine. The worst part is not so much the teaching but rather the admin we have to do. I probably spend more time on admin than I do on teaching.
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18-06-2019, 13:32 #46
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Re: What should kids learn in school?
Exactly true! My Mother is a Headmaster at a private school, but had back in 1997 been forced to attend training by DoE on Curriculum 2005.
This system was set up to indoctrinate children, to let them believe in White Privilege, to de-colonialise schools and society!
Put your tinfoil head on, for what will come is stranger than fiction
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