People with children: If your kid came out of K-12 school only knowing: 1. How to paint a decent portrait. 2. Read and Write as good as a journalist. 3. Code in 3 programming languages. 4. Play 1 instrument. Would you consider that:
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Replying to @zedshaw
This is a very practical kind of education, which is good but shouldn’t be all that’s taught. It’s missing a lot of areas that are important for understanding the world and how it works: history, geography, science.
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Replying to @michaelmelanson @zedshaw
You would get some of these subjects: history through art and music, history and geography through literacy, etc. But would that be sufficient for the student to fill in the gaps to get a good understanding of the fields? I’m not sure.
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Replying to @michaelmelanson
Actually, I think I was talking about K-12 and you were talking about college since....well....understanding an entire field like History is not really a fair expectation of a HS student.
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Replying to @zedshaw
No, I was thinking about K-12. I think where we may differ is in the expectation of “understanding” a field. High school graduates should have a basic understanding of many fields. I’m not expecting historians (and geographers and scientists). I’m expecting informed citizens.
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That's where I disagree then. I don't think the end result of HS should be a student who knows every field as there's far too many to know, thus why most of them come out not very good at anything at all, not to mention most schools being bad at teaching any field.
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