There are some educational notions more closely based on superstition than science. I talk about a couple of my favorites this morning.
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These tommw podcasts are rather educational …. If I were a teacher, I’d ask if I could get credits for listening …. but I think I have some idea what the probably range of responses might be 😉 Thanks again, Nathan 🙂
In Quebec, they try so much to get the farthest possible from traditionnal (read religious) teaching that now kids don’t know how to write… They are now teached to express their feelings and be creative… but they don’t do spelling tests anymore… A shame.
Something we can’t forget (even if the rest was a bit too much) is that “sisters” and “brothers” had a way to teach. Some lessons I will never forget : they are forever branded in my mind. And the key to that was REPETITION.
Memory? Hah, what a joke. Does anybody memorize poetry, Shakespeare, anything? Waste of time? I think not. I still have a great memory, but kids don’t seem to know how to spell it. I think it opens up pathways in the brain. Oh well, I am an old fogie, I guess, er, a curmudgeon, too.
Yeah – people get surprised that I know Stopping By The Woods on a Snowy Evening, or Requiem, or Rondeau, or the opening stanzas of Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Jabberwocky.
Just as I can do two-place addition in my head, and often two-place multiplication. Where, on the other hand, many kids when handed a $20, and punching it into a cash register as a $10, need a manager to help them figure out what to do (instead of just giving me a $10 and what’s showing on the register for change).