Yea I wouldn’t have learned much in school had I not been practicing and applying it in real-time in a modern context
School is to learning what memorizing the names of the potted plants on someone's balcony is to exploring the Amazon rainforest
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Teaching things to memorize is scalable and success is easy to measure, while having pupils/students to practice efficiently (and thus reinforcing their memorization) is (much) more of a hand-tailored task.
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What do you think a better alternative is? I grew up in a Sudbury School but that's too radical to be widely accepted.
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To add to your analogy: if you hadn't seen some plants and their properties beforehand in a controlled environment you may die poisoned lost in the middle of the forest.
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It depends on the teacher. And, by the way, children are great at memorizing and repetition. Not so much at relating concepts the way adults are. First memorize, then reason, it's kind of the way we're wired.
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According to you, when does a children become an adult?
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This explains some of your issues :-) school is mainly to learn how to socially interact with other people. Understanding is usually done outside of school
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Good one. We discussed this theme on one of our episodes: "Why do we go to school?" The Other Day I Thought Ofhttps://open.spotify.com/episode/2WUvKHn066rZGOzKSd07V8 …
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What what and what?
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