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Yes. Anyone who in primary school did their entire math book on one sitting for the fun of it and got admonished for it - "what on earth I'm going to do with yo
by fsloth 10y ago
Yes. Anyone who in primary school did their entire math book on one sitting for the fun of it and got admonished for it - "what on earth I'm going to do with you now in math, that was the entire material" probably agrees with me.
Or my wife, who knew her egyptian history inside out and got laughed at because "she could not name Cleopatra as a female pharaoh". (Cleopatra was greek aristocrat, not a pharaoh)
Needless to say my enthusiasm for math really wasn't the same after that. Or her eagerness for history.
To be totally disconnected from ones peers is a torture no child should be forced to suffer. To be taught by teachers who aren't actually comfortable with their discipline.
And this was 30 years ago in Finland, now touted as one of the best examples in primary education.
- run4yourlives2 10y agoYour wife (and you) are wrong. Cleopatra was a Pharaoh. Yes, she was a Greek decent of Alexander, and the Ptolemaic Dynasty was of his blood, not Egyptian, but it's founder Ptolemy declared himself Pharaoh, and therefore she had the title as well. It's similar as to how Queen Elizabeth is the Queen of Canada, even though she is English. To say she isn't the Queen of Canada is simply incorrect. This level of hubris is a perfect example of why mixed education is a good thing. Nobody is so gifted to be above the human frailty of being wrong.