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The thing that drives me nuts is that it is always presented as this dichotomy between teaching STEM and teaching liberal arts, as if you have to pick one or th
by thrower123 7y ago
The thing that drives me nuts is that it is always presented as this dichotomy between teaching STEM and teaching liberal arts, as if you have to pick one or the other. The schools have these children for twelve or thirteen years. You could easily do both if you cut the shit and the nonsense and didn't waste their time.
You might have to track children according to ability, which is unpalatable to some. You might also have to have a revolution in the art of teacher education and practice, which is probably impossible due to the entrenched interests.
- porknubbins 7y agoYou could teach some motivated fraction of children orders of magnitude more academic information but the goal of primary education is equally if not more to socialize them into being what the society demands of its citizens. Seeing foreign elementary schools hammered this home for me, what I’d forgotten or assimilated so much I didn’t even notice it- that teachers are constantly reinforcing their normative values about whats good and bad behavior. Because this varies so much by culture its wild to see for example a Japanese elementary school.