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Really amazing that two key bugs in schools work actively hurt the brain’s ability to learn, remember, focus, and make decisions: 1. Long school days mean brai
by robg 4y ago
Really amazing that two key bugs in schools work actively hurt the brain’s ability to learn, remember, focus, and make decisions:
1. Long school days mean brains are overworked and so don’t function well
2. Multi month summer breaks actively overwrite what was learned the prior year
When will schooling be built to best optimize brain power?
- Levitz 4y agoTo your second point, that's just a testament of the failure of schooling. If anything, the only things kids learn are those that they still know after summer break, or better yet, a couple of years afterwards. The current model is based on memorizing a whole lot of stuff and then later forgetting it. very little is learned at schools and high-schools. The relationship between invested time and knowledge returned is appalling, but it makes sense once you accept that, like others in the thread have said, school and high school are essentially grown-up childcare.
- eggsmediumrare 4y agoSummer vacation was awesome though. I don't mean that flippantly. Especially in grader 8/9/10 when summer jobs weren't as common. There are things you don't learn in school, and time for the sake of time is a precious gift.