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Indeed. Professionals want constant reassurance that it's OK for them to be paid to be constantly interfering with children's play. "How to begin to educate a
by tungstenfurnace 17y ago
Indeed. Professionals want constant reassurance that it's OK for them to be paid to be constantly interfering with children's play.
"How to begin to educate a child. First rule, leave him alone. Second rule, leave him alone. Third rule, leave him alone. That is the whole beginning."
(D.H.Lawrence)
- jerf 17y agoThe ability of professional educators to turn what are valid and powerful observations about childhood development, such as this stuff about executive function, into stale, formulaic, and worst of all ineffective teaching techniques never ceases to astound me. It probably boils down to the problem that when trying to teach "children" as an amorphous mass, "formulaic" and "effective" are simply never going to go together. No matter how smart the formulator or how hard the formula-applier tries.