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Cave walls are massive distractions to children, especially in a school context. When it comes to young children, I am sceptic to the use of painting in educati
by virtualized 9y ago
Cave walls are massive distractions to children, especially in a school context. When it comes to young children, I am sceptic to the use of painting in education in general. School should help incorporate good habits into a child's routine, such as listening to stories, and nailing reliance on walls into children is not something we want to be doing in schools.
That's what your comment will sound like in 100 years.
- marchenko 9y agoUnless those cave walls could be neatly concealed in a pocket or under a desk and served up a stream of rapidly-changing Skinner-optimised content, accompanied by irregular purposefully distracting notification signals, I don't think this is a good analogy. Why is it so hard to believe that we are getting better at hacking our attention spans? Indeed, the cave wall comparison highlights the difference between stimulation and distraction. Daydreaming while staring at the walls of Lascaux would be a significantly more useful activity than having your attention micro-partitioned by the demands of a Snap streak.
- chrisdbaldwin 9y agoLook at it this way, some people have broke escape velocity and reached orbit. Those that have reached orbit are now laser beaming down the rockets still trying to reach orbit. That's how the US education system works and why it is so shit. We pay orbiters to prevent others from reaching orbit. It's quite crowded and no one wants the competition.