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Great points; “To a small enough child, reading is a "useless fact." After all, an illiterate child has gone his whole life without needing to know how to read
by ismail 8y ago
Great points;
“To a small enough child, reading is a "useless fact." After all, an illiterate child has gone his whole life without needing to know how to read”
“Why waste time learning letters...”
This is the point/philosophy of it. The child will choose to learn when they need and want to. Having spoken to some of these children I found most taught themselves to read without formal instruction.
“None of the facts they teach in school are truly useless, but rather the person who judges them useless is just too ignorant to know their value.”
Exactly. So if they are useless to the person it means an EXTERNAL party has made a judgement call on what knowledge is useful. It comes down to who decides what Is useful knowledge and what is not. Who should make threat decision?
- tivert 8y ago> This is the point/philosophy of it. The child will choose to learn when they need and want to. You're missing the point. A child is ignorant of a great many things and not competent to make many of those kinds of choices. That's not to say they can't have some input, but it's an abdication of your responsibility as a parent to let them make all their educational choices based on "when they need and want to," unless those choices are so highly stage managed that they're not really choices at all. > So if they are useless to the person it means an EXTERNAL party has made a judgement call on what knowledge is useful. What's so bad about that? The whole point of schooling is to benefit from the knowledge and maturity of that "EXTERNAL" party, which allows them to make better educational choices about a great many things.