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And there is variance on this between countries, but e.g. where I'm from the worst teachers are rated the best.

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This is definitely a huge problem and the system is sufficiently unsure of what makes a "good" teacher that efforts to…

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improve the situation often make it worse. Scary, authoritarian teachers can easily be the default because you can get…

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away with being a crap educator if you can force output from a class. Terrible. At least you usually have a variety of…

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teachers over time, though. Most people have had at least a few that they really liked our connected with. If …

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home schooling was the norm, huge numbers of kids would be stuck with a parent and it would be pure luck if it worked.

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But as Ian says, there are ways to fix schooling... by making it not be like schooling.

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That would be my instinctual approach; I do believe there is a value in professional educators (but wife=teacher 😉).

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There is great value in professional educators. (I also teach English). They don't have to be used the way they are now.

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No, far too many teacher hours are wasted and harm is being done for no benefit.

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Which begs the question of why we were sitting in a classroom doing this to begin with.

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11:20 AM · Mar 6, 2017Twitter Web Client

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It's the modem version of "be quiet, open the textbook at page 27, complete the questions."

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What has been provided? A roof over you head, "motivation" and the knowledge that page 27 is worth reading.

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