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I know that this is yet another article about how an emergency shift to a novel form of education maybe wasn't ideal for a quality education, but when has schoo
by PrivateButts 3y ago
I know that this is yet another article about how an emergency shift to a novel form of education maybe wasn't ideal for a quality education, but when has school ever completely prepared someone for whatever path they take in life? Didn't for me when I graduated. There is so much to learn, so much specific knowledge out there, that it's impossible to cram it all into X years of schooling. Best you can do is teach them the broad, base level stuff, give them some opportunities and connections to get started, and help them build the skills to learn new things efficiently. Learning doesn't stop when school ends.
- ttoinou 3y agoExactly. This type of article is to make us believe school was ever useful. It was not much
- ngetchell 3y agoSays the person that can form a sentence, likely thanks to instruction they received from a school.
- willcipriano 3y agoI can form much more complete and eloquent sentences and I treated school as the re-education camps that they are. My mother taught me to read, then books (and later the internet) taught me the rest.
- andsoitis 3y ago> I can form much more complete and eloquent sentences much more than what?
- willcipriano 3y ago> It was not much Not a big deal and not something I would point our normally but it lacks punctuation and lands a bit soft for my tastes.
- ttoinou 3y agoI was writing fast, and english isn't my mother tongue. But I'm sure it's about style and taste here. I've read dirty english in Bukowski
- shortrounddev2 3y agoI spent 18 years in school. If the net result is "the student can form a sentence", then 99% of instruction was wasted
- andsoitis 3y agoDid you also learn mathematics? Did you learn anything or were you exposed to anything that interest you and that you pursued more deeply? Did you make friends and learn social skills?
- shortrounddev2 3y agoEverything I use in my career was self taught from the internet. I took many math and other classes that were a waste of time
- andsoitis 3y agoSo if you had children you would not send them to school?
- shortrounddev2 3y agoI'd look into democratic schooling or private schools with alternative pedagogy. My criticism is not of all forms of school and learning, just the conservative, orthodox pedagogy found in public schools and most private schools
- SamPatt 3y agoYou definitely don't have children.
- ngetchell 3y agoI do have kids. The idea that school is just organized babysitting where you learn nothing is an absolutely ridiculous take.
- SamPatt 3y agoSorry about my presumption. Could your children form sentences before they attended school? Almost certainly yes, so I don't understand your earlier claim.
- ttoinou 3y agoWon't send them to public school
- constantcrying 3y agoOne claim of the article is that specific job focused training programs have failed to provide students with skills previous students had gained during their training. I completely agree that education does not remove the need to gain real experience on the job, no matter the circumstances. But there are certain skill that should be learned before entering certain jobs and the article claims many students are lacking in those skills.
- haktai 3y ago[dead]