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I'm not so sure. My OK brother-in-law was decrying the state of his primary education. He mentioned it took a full year of remedial tutoring to be ready for col
by JoeAltmaier 5y ago
I'm not so sure. My OK brother-in-law was decrying the state of his primary education. He mentioned it took a full year of remedial tutoring to be ready for college at 18.
I asked "So, an entire primary education can be recapitulated in a few months by an 18-year-old. Why then do we torment children with 12 years of schooling? If it isn't necessary?"
He had no answer, being a teacher himself. But I wonder.
- kergonath 5y ago> So, an entire primary education can be recapitulated in a few months by an 18-year-old. That’s not exactly fair. During his primary education, he learnt enough to complete it in a few months. This does not tell how long it would have taken had he never gone to school at all.
- hypertele-Xii 5y agoOne year of one teacher tutoring one student contains far more attention than 12 years of one teacher teaching 30 children. Also, school is as much a daycare so the parents can go to work, as it is a place of "learning". Furthermore, you study specifically to pass tests. Actual learning is a secondary side-effect of education.
- JoeAltmaier 5y agoCuriously if we stopped trying to teach infants for 12 years, there would be enough teachers to tutor 18-year-olds with proper attention. Daycare exists already. If that's what we want, that's what we should pay for and get. Seem like theatre to combine the two.
- hypertele-Xii 5y agoA great deal of postmodern civilization indeed seems suspiciously much like theatre :)