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Right. I really like his point about the schooling being a factory, with people going through based on date of manufacture. I absolutely think it would be awe
by araneae 16y ago
Right. I really like his point about the schooling being a factory, with people going through based on date of manufacture. I absolutely think it would be awesome if you could go through your grades at your own pace, in different subjects. A software based approach to learning would be excellent for this.
But of course this is completely antithetical to his latter point, which is that group based learning/problem-solving is important. You can't have groups if everyone is going at their own pace.
The happy medium might be to structure elementary education more like college, with the ability to take 100 level classes in the 4th year or whatnot. But of course, this is far more expensive than the batch method because you have to have many more classes. To support so many classes you have to have many more children, which means vastly larger schools, so you might only be able to do it in densely populated cities.
- dpatru 16y ago> You can't have groups if everyone is going at their own pace. Isn't this how adults learn? (And children too, when out of the classroom.) If you want to learn something new, say how to program in Haskell, what do you do? You probably don't try to find an institution to which you pay a lot of money and which offers you in return a seat in a room along with thirty others like you in which an instructor talks to you for a few hours a week. Instead, if you want to learn Haskell programming, you check for learning materials online and go through them at your own pace. When you get stuck, you find online forums where you can ask questions. Also, as you learn, you answer other people's questions on the forums. You are learning at your own pace but you are not isolated.
- araneae 16y agoWell, that's how I learned programming, and to this day I haven't managed to collaborate with anyone on anything. My friends that did group projects in a class, by comparison, are quite good at it.