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No. There is something one learns by going to public schools and seeing all his fellow human beings held to the same standards. I grew up in Armenia in the pos
by dkarapetyan 10y ago
No. There is something one learns by going to public schools and seeing all his fellow human beings held to the same standards.
I grew up in Armenia in the post soviet union era. The one thing they got right was the education part. There were no distinctions. We all learned the same material, gifted or not. Those that lagged got extra attention and help. When I first got here the segregation of "gifted" vs "non-gifted" always felt viscerally incorrect to me.
- stale2002 10y agoOK, so if you are all learning the same material, what happens when someone learns all the material months before everyone else? Do they just sit around and do nothing? Is that really a productive use of their time?
- dkarapetyan 10y agoI guess that would make them some kind of genius in which case they can start attending university. I was learning matrix algebra in 4th grade based on the soviet system whereas everyone here was barely doing 2 + 2 = ? in some worksheet. Surprisingly folks managed to not be bored. If your standard is what the current system teaches then it's not hard to improve it and have people not be bored while still not drawing a distinction between "gifted" and "non-gifted".
- stale2002 10y agoNo... That does not make you a genius if you are ahead of the class. Getting a couple months ahead is easy, when everyone else is going slowly. Sure, if the entire class is going quickly, that is effectively as if everyone is in the gifted class. We shouldn't dumb things down to keep up with the lowest common denominator. Students should be able to work at their own pace, and if they get ahead, them they should be put ahead.