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Teachers become teachers not out of passion for teaching but because it is the easiest path to go through if you follow the designed education system. Highschoo

Teachers become teachers not out of passion for teaching but because it is the easiest path to go through if you follow the designed education system. Highschool pushes university hard, university pushes teaching, and teaching is a default path if you're scared of getting skills in anything else. I have met very few teachers whom have life experience outside of being a teacher, and it makes them mindless drones that, yes, collect a paycheck and hand out assignments from Pearson or some other company. Teachers are now largely unnecessary, COVID made everything done online. It turns out in person teachers are largely ineffective and replaced with a YouTube video. Schooling simply has not kept up, and the unions want it that way.

michaelmrose 5y ago
Youtube is not a good replacement for instructor led education because you need someone to be able to answer questions, select material, monitor pupil progress, identify weak areas and help improve them. This is not that dissimilar from someone thinking that businessmen don't need programmers because they could just cut out the middlemen and copy and paste from stackoverflow. It's not real analysis its a powerpoint presentation and its not well connected to reality.
- devwastaken 5y ago
  YouTube is singularly how high schoolers and college students pass most of their classes, because teachers are not competent instructors. Again, most of these things have gone online, with pre recorded videos being the focus. YouTube content creators simply do a better job at it because math, history, philosophy, etc teachers are poor presenters of information. Compsci is a popular one where the concepts are far easier understood by a YouTube video than a smart board. The ideas of what teachers do and what they actually do are entirely different. Teachers overwhelmingly are there to hand out assignments bought from a company. If you don't understand it, teachers don't care, it's keep up or drop out.

michaelmrose 5y ago

Youtube is not a good replacement for instructor led education because you need someone to be able to answer questions, select material, monitor pupil progress, identify weak areas and help improve them. This is not that dissimilar from someone thinking that businessmen don't need programmers because they could just cut out the middlemen and copy and paste from stackoverflow. It's not real analysis its a powerpoint presentation and its not well connected to reality.

devwastaken 5y ago
YouTube is singularly how high schoolers and college students pass most of their classes, because teachers are not competent instructors. Again, most of these things have gone online, with pre recorded videos being the focus. YouTube content creators simply do a better job at it because math, history, philosophy, etc teachers are poor presenters of information. Compsci is a popular one where the concepts are far easier understood by a YouTube video than a smart board. The ideas of what teachers do and what they actually do are entirely different. Teachers overwhelmingly are there to hand out assignments bought from a company. If you don't understand it, teachers don't care, it's keep up or drop out.