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I've been hearing this for decades -- it was a common refrain after the passing of NCLB -- and it's always presented as some dramatic new thing. I suspect the r
by clipsy 3y ago
I've been hearing this for decades -- it was a common refrain after the passing of NCLB -- and it's always presented as some dramatic new thing. I suspect the reality is that people who become teachers value education higher than the general populace and are dismayed to see first hand how little the average person has ever cared.
(I'm open to be persuaded by actual data, just to be clear; the rapid and substantial changes in pedagogy during the pandemic may very well have had some unique impact. I'm just not interested in one or two teachers' anecdata.)
- sshine 3y agoThere is the bias you describe. There may also be a perception that leaving out old knowledge is somehow a "loss", not noticing or recognising the entrance of new knowledge. When I studied, there wasn't room for learning git, and now CI pipelines are on the curriculum. And I may take learning git for granted because I know it. So yes, a lot of sample size = 1 mentality.
- Xeyz0r 3y agoI think teachers can observe changes in generations by the way they think and the way they study stuff