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Don't you think this is a problem, at least for some students? It was for me. I was an awful student all the way through high school (graduated with something
by maxharris 16y ago
Don't you think this is a problem, at least for some students?
It was for me. I was an awful student all the way through high school (graduated with something around a D average). I blossomed in college with a near-perfect GPA in a natural science major. (What I had to go through to get into the university I did is another story, and beside the point.) The important difference between these two environments is that I wasn't a prisoner at the university.
I have never accepted authority that I thought was unjust ("Who are you to tell me that you know what's better for me than I do?"), and that's exactly how I viewed my education before college. Granted, there are sensible limitations (mostly related to safety) on how far children can be left to their own devices, but all I ever wanted as a child was to spring from my daily prison and do something that I knew was worthwhile.
- defen 16y agoOh I completely agree - the current system is horribly broken, and for the vast majority of students is really a Lord of the Flies-meets-babysitting kind of situation. I was just trying to say that pmorici's analogy, which was already stretched in trying to apply the way a lawyer/doctor gets repeat business to the way a college professor gets "new business", completely falls down when applied to primary school teachers.
- maxharris 16y agoI think parents would try to get the best teacher for their money if they were free to choose where and how their children were educated. While what we have today is far from choosing a lawyer, there is no reason why primary education couldn't or shouldn't be a market in the future.