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> The children I teach have almost no curiosity, and what little they do have is transitory Maybe kids are just not curious about what the author teaches? As a

> The children I teach have almost no curiosity, and what little they do have is transitory Maybe kids are just not curious about what the author teaches? As a parent, I have to admit that kids are not necessarily curious about what we value. My kids are not curious about STEM, at least not yet. They are, however, are very curious about how to use TNT in minecraft, or how to learn cartwheel. It's unfortunate (or forutnate?) that not every one is born curious about STEM or any subject like their teachers or parents do.

xboxnolifes 4y ago
Very much this, and it shouldn't even be a shocking revelation to most people. Nobody I know in my life enjoyed every subject they were taught in school. At best, they had 1 or 2 subjects they could be called curious about. Many had none (that were taught in school). And even then, the schooling I went through hardly rewarded curiousness. You were incentivized to cram information to pass tests, so that you could get good grades, to get into good colleges, to cram more information to the pass more tests, to get good grades. Even when my teachers seems to enjoy curious students, the curriculum was certainly not structured to incentivize it.
- hintymad 4y ago
  > You were incentivized to cram information to pass tests I thought there was a solution: teachers give good questions for homework and exams. When I was in school, I rarely got repeated questions. Most questions challenged my understanding of fundamentals. It's hard to believe that people who only cram can ever get decent grades in tests like IIT's JEE, China's National Entrance Exam, or Japan's university entrance exams, or Korea's national entrance exams. As for the US, it's hard to imagine that anyone can solve decently hard problems in textbooks like Jackson's Classical Electrodynamics or Cormen et el's Introduction to Algorithms (The US does not mandate challenging problems in high schools, so I use examples from college).
thrown_22 4y ago
Teach them about red stone and you're teaming them programming.

xboxnolifes 4y ago

Very much this, and it shouldn't even be a shocking revelation to most people. Nobody I know in my life enjoyed every subject they were taught in school. At best, they had 1 or 2 subjects they could be called curious about. Many had none (that were taught in school). And even then, the schooling I went through hardly rewarded curiousness. You were incentivized to cram information to pass tests, so that you could get good grades, to get into good colleges, to cram more information to the pass more tests, to get good grades. Even when my teachers seems to enjoy curious students, the curriculum was certainly not structured to incentivize it.

hintymad 4y ago
> You were incentivized to cram information to pass tests I thought there was a solution: teachers give good questions for homework and exams. When I was in school, I rarely got repeated questions. Most questions challenged my understanding of fundamentals. It's hard to believe that people who only cram can ever get decent grades in tests like IIT's JEE, China's National Entrance Exam, or Japan's university entrance exams, or Korea's national entrance exams. As for the US, it's hard to imagine that anyone can solve decently hard problems in textbooks like Jackson's Classical Electrodynamics or Cormen et el's Introduction to Algorithms (The US does not mandate challenging problems in high schools, so I use examples from college).

thrown_22 4y ago

Teach them about red stone and you're teaming them programming.