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> No one has yet shown that there is a better way of doing this than the current system, sadly, without expending a lot more focused resource than people are po
by teslabox 10y ago
> No one has yet shown that there is a better way of doing this than the current system, sadly, without expending a lot more focused resource than people are politically willing to exert.
John Holt wrote "how children fail" and "how children learn" at least 40 years ago. John Gatto wrote "Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling" 25 years ago.
The education problem is very well defined, but it can't be fixed or addressed because of inertia, and because of who benefits from the status quo.
- bsder 10y ago> John Holt wrote "how children fail" and "how children learn" at least 40 years ago. John Gatto wrote "Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling" 25 years ago. Holt is not a particularly good figure to cite to back up your assertions. "Education" books are like most "business" books, very little research and data to back up scores of anecdotes. This doesn't automatically make him wrong, but many of his ideas have been overturned and refuted by actual research and investigation. However, your point stands and we are in agreement with the fact that there is no political will to expend the resource required to improve educational attainment.