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I'm not familiar with the Norwegian education system but didn't you have classes that required writing essays or at least short answers? If kids go through over
by arolihas 4y ago
I'm not familiar with the Norwegian education system but didn't you have classes that required writing essays or at least short answers? If kids go through over a decade of schooling and still cannot write a coherent message well into adulthood, something is fundamentally flawed.
- magicalhippo 4y agoSure, but I think non-prose is different enough that it's worth spending more time on it. We did have a bit of it, but pretty insignificant compared to the rest. When I got to high school, nobody in my class could write a half-way decent report for example. Just the basics of what a report even was and what it was supposed to contain. I got the equivalent of a D and the teacher said I had done "by far the best in class", the rest got F's and NR. None of us in class had come from the same junior high schools, so wasn't that. Most of my colleagues seem to have no issue telling a story, but many seem to have problems forming a coherent argument, or asking a non-confusing question, in writing. Again, don't think it would have hurt to have more non-prose experience in the basic education.