That might only be true for kids that are locked in a closet for their entire lives.
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Not true
People learn from peers; education doesn’t happen in the classroom
I dunno, learned quite a bit in classrooms, and I was the lazy type 😂
seen vs unseen
same! not everything in the process of gaining knowledge should be a first hand experience – radiation as an pretty obvious example.
for centuries kids are enlightened by grownups – not only bc it’s the way to control if the knowledge corresponds with the reality and can be useful – but also because the relationship between teacher and student is built on authority. the last thing is rooted in nature of most highly developed animals – children often try to mimic what grownups do
I work for a foundation that does a lot of work in the banlieus. The children there are definitely forgotten by society and politics. But how should their parents, who sometimes can't even write, educate them?
I’d say this is the majority of adults. Even with good intentions they have no business facilitating learning of any kind. Sadly.
💯 and there are also teachers who shouldn’t be in the classroom either.
True
Every child is different, some can learn better and more at home, others need the school environment. My son is extremely intelligent and I could never offer him a better education than what he’s getting at his school. Different strokes for different folks.
That’s it. There is not one way
Exactly, and teachers don’t teach one way either.
I’m like how someone put it one time - maybe it was Balaji: schools are full of thousands of mediocre teachers; what you need is an amazing teacher in thousands of schools simultaneously. Paraphrasing.
Ooof hell of a question. Would love to talk more about what you do offline
Oh I’ve always wanted to know more about the banlieu’s. I worked in the same field and the states so it’s interesting, and depressing, to watch the same dynamics play out globally