We should bring that back, for sure. I'd be worried we'd botch it, though, by making the class book-heavy. If I did it, I'd try to blend rhetoric with drama, make the kids compete in oratory performance, and sprinkle in the classical education between performances.
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They need to scrap government schools and compulsory schooling and things would quickly fix itself. Education and learning is a life long journey and there is no need for kids or adults to spend so long "learning"
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I am strongly in favor of apprenticeship for poorer families and private tutoring for wealthy families
(the main methods of instructing children & young adults for all of Western history)
Government Schools are a jobs project scam.
I said the same once to another teacher, and he couldn't process it. It just couldn't penetrate... I said if a kid doesn't want to be there, he should be able to go. If a kid wants to work, they should be able to work. That way, they'd realize what an opportunity school is, or can be, and then they'd grow up and some would be teachers, and they would teach like it actually matters. Because it does matter, and they think think it matters, but they don't **_know_** it matters, because if they did, they wouldn't let class be a waste of everyone's time.
💯> if they don't have the choice to be there, it is a prison.
I have found kids interest and curiosity alone will inspire them to learn, if you try to force them, you will kill any interest they might have had.
That right there is the Dao of teaching. Can a teacher cause kids to be interested? If yes, then that's a good teacher, and it doesn't matter if they have experience or assign homework or anything that normally qualifies you to teach. A lazy teacher can be the best at it, if they can pose the questions that cause the student to pursue it independently.