Things that should be taught in school: Physical literacy Emotional literacy Risk literacy Cultural literacy Ideological literacy
If schools were good at teaching such things, sure. But the "if" clause is why I'm skeptical of such lists. Subjects I was "taught" in school I hated. It took me years to overcome my dislike of biology, for instance. Things I learnt outside school, like math & writing, I loved
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I should rephrase this then as: Knowledge society should prioritise and make prestigious
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That's a list I can get behind. I particularly like the emotional literacy one. So key as an enabler. E.g., you can know all the theory about risk cold, but if you don't understand your emotional responses you may not be able to take advantage of that knowledge...
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For me this is so high res it extends to individual books. Thank God my English teachers had such bad (or more precisely, conventional) taste, or a lot more books would have been ruined for me.
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Hmm...I definitely hated maths until I learned it outside of school, but I loved English at school, in part because of a few great teachers who treated us like humans, and I still love reading and writing (although I tend to analyse fewer Shakespeare plays :P)...
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If you could reimagine “school” Michael, what would it look like?
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Too long for a tweet, but I definitely like a lot of what's in Ivan Illich and John Holt's books. E.g., Illich's "Deschooling Society".
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I was on of the few lucky ones that got into subjects thanks to really great teachers. Maybe the
@iborganization just knows how to pick them. But I never would have enjoyed History or Clsssic Literature without them. But indeed these subjects should be valued and taught earlyThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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The mission of http://mathbot.com is precisely to take as much out of schools as possible (starting with math and coding).
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