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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That would be my instinctual approach; I do believe there is a value in professional educators (but wife=teacher 😉).
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what I don't get is why we want to have kids raised by teachers mostly. And minus ec. pressure, parents are happy.
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I think that turning out little obedient fuckers is killing us. Sit down, give the textbook answer, raise your hand...
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I still to this day run into people remembering me from philosophy class 8 years ago because I stood on a table.