It’s a fallacy. It’s not a production line. Every school is different, every classroom is different, and every teacher is different. Yes, the curriculum is the same, but we all bring our own personal philosophy to it.

Where do you teach? In all of the schools that I am aware of students are only taught to remember someone else's ideas as if they are an ultimate truth by heart and are tasked to repeat them line by line.

That may be so but you still need to introduce a way to discover questions. For example, as a kid I didn’t have much guidance from anyone and was not aware of things I could be curious about. Growing up in a poor household, neighborhood, town, you often have the scarcity mindset that doesn’t even allow you to dream. Some guidance is needed to introduce subjects to be curious about. For many that comes in a form of a parent but when the parent is financially insecure the kid needs other stimulation.

That’d be funny.

Questions come naturally (hence the reference to curiosity)

You don’t need to incentivize it just like you don’t need inflation to incentivize consumption.

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 like the sound of it. I don’t think I disagree with anything here. Not sure about not incentivizing questioning - because naturally when you learn you tend to have more questions.

The Fiatnam War is a spiritual war. Good morning.

Why would you assume that students have been conditioned to strive for praise?

I am not saying that school as it exists is good, but it is also not as simple as presented here

Fair enough. I am just trying to assess how much schooling the people had - the ones who say school = bad.

I’m not judging, just want some context behind their claims. I can certainly understand how schooling past a certain point produces worker drones without creativity. But I’m also a practical person who needs to hear practical solutions not just fluff ideas. I mean those are fine too, I’m just trying to assess how much thought someone really put into their ideas.

Very open to everything but also question all of it.

What exactly would a parent be unlearning? Arithmetic? The scientific method? How to structure an expository piece of writing? Figurative language techniques? Math facts?

Then the level of education of the children depends on the cognitive/intellectual abilities of the parents

Can I ask, what does someone’s level of education tell you about them?

Either, both, everything

So you are still teaching them 🤔

Curious about your level of education

I’m a teacher and over the years I have found it way more rewarding to facilitate the learning of my students. Teach them concepts, facilitate learning…

What would a child teach a parent?