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I was thinking about education last night and here is the idea I am developing.. I encourage ongoing criticism Students study varied subject matter but only on

I was thinking about education last night and here is the idea I am developing.. I encourage ongoing criticism Students study varied subject matter but only one subjects' grade 'matters' and can be chosen by the student Personally, I think our maths education suffers from a lack of freedom.. I do think it can be for anyone but only because I believe anyone can bring to it whatever they'd like, whereas education tells you what areas need to be studied and how is competition the foil of expression?

baobrain 10y ago
Could you elaborate? For example, What would motivate a student to put towards any effort in their non-main courses if it doesn't affect their grade? Edit: clarity and accuracy
- justifier 10y ago
  Exactly, it would be unnecessary The student could just coast through a course.. they would have to sit through all lectures and would be assigned problems and reading but only one course would track their retention I feel this is basically already what is happening in education with the prevalence of students' creative ways of undermining the current grading paradigm But with the ancillary benefit that a student would be freed to actually do the work to foster an interest in at least one subject Also, the student could be free to explore other subjects in ways outside of the means of tracking retention I was pushing my math research since I was a child but instead was forced to abandon it and had calculus forcibly replaced as 'how I should think about mathematics' even though I fundamentally disagreed with its concepts If I was free from the stress of doing poorly from the standpoint of grades I could have focused my interest on my own mathematical insight and simply allowed my education to expose me to calculus wherein I would have retained an appreciation for mathematics and developed one for the practicality of calculus practices

baobrain 10y ago

Could you elaborate? For example, What would motivate a student to put towards any effort in their non-main courses if it doesn't affect their grade? Edit: clarity and accuracy

justifier 10y ago
Exactly, it would be unnecessary The student could just coast through a course.. they would have to sit through all lectures and would be assigned problems and reading but only one course would track their retention I feel this is basically already what is happening in education with the prevalence of students' creative ways of undermining the current grading paradigm But with the ancillary benefit that a student would be freed to actually do the work to foster an interest in at least one subject Also, the student could be free to explore other subjects in ways outside of the means of tracking retention I was pushing my math research since I was a child but instead was forced to abandon it and had calculus forcibly replaced as 'how I should think about mathematics' even though I fundamentally disagreed with its concepts If I was free from the stress of doing poorly from the standpoint of grades I could have focused my interest on my own mathematical insight and simply allowed my education to expose me to calculus wherein I would have retained an appreciation for mathematics and developed one for the practicality of calculus practices