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> We teach... we teach... we teach... Reading this, not sure about anyone else's experience but very little written here reflects how any of those subjects wer

> We teach... we teach... we teach... Reading this, not sure about anyone else's experience but very little written here reflects how any of those subjects were actually approached and you know just the assumption that because you have something called a "teacher" in a class called "x" means that the "teacher" actually taught "x", because yeah from my experience a lot of it was just about regurgitating facts, no creativity was never really taught and was often punished, actual speaking and actual communication was never really taught only judged, and no way did "learn from what came before us and how the world around us works" ever occur within the walls of any classroom I was unfortunate enough to sit within. Wouldn't ever risk my kids future by throwing them into that system, honestly feel extremely lucky it didn't completely screw mine up.

danpalmer 3y ago
I tried to get it across but perhaps the point didn't land – I'm not talking about any given classroom or the practical aspects of it. Curriculums have all sorts of issues, teaching is increasingly a job of meeting quotas, school funding is problematic all over the world, and examination sucks. However, we're still choosing as a society to send kids to school. The fact that school systems suck in so much of the world doesn't stop it from being the right idea in theory, and if you ask almost anyone on the street "should kids learn to read" or "should kids be taught about their history" you'll almost unanimously get answers of absolutely. (We can debate what "their history" means, but most people agree something should be taught, they just disagree on what)