I think their main attempt with this is less-than-subtle brainwashing.If they taught teachers how to keep the student's attention we wouldn't have the issues we have today with students falling behind in test scores.
School is boring and most kids these days cannot stand it. Kids need to be motivated and involved more in school.
Dear god yes.How to learn.
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Seriously people aren't taught HOW to learn. They are taught thousands of interconnected facts and asked to regurgitate them on command. You have to learn on your own HOW to learn. When these kids reach university and come to the realization that they have to learn themselves some of them just say fuck it I can't do that.
I'm not just being cute. There are many techniques and underlying principals on HOW to learn things. Things like abstraction, pattern recognition, mnemonics, applying general rules to new sets of data not seen before. etc etc...
Yes, if taught well....
Edit: I'd add an intro to physics class to the list. If taught properly can be very useful and thought provoking.
Phonics. I noticed a lot in HS and even some in college when someone would be reading aloud, and they'd run into a new word and have absolutely no idea how to sound it out.
Phonics. I noticed a lot in HS and even some in college when someone would be reading aloud, and they'd run into a new word and have absolutely no idea how to sound it out.
Perhaps but Fleabag then followed it up with another post that claimed "Jupiter that had ...out of control global warming caused by green house gasses" so he is back to form. Spouting inaccurate or flat out incorrect information. Balance, harmony and order have been restored.
Edit: I'd add an intro to physics class to the list. If taught properly can be very useful and thought provoking.
wwybywb?perhaps but fleabag then followed it up with another post that claimed "jupiter that had ...out of control global warming caused by green house gasses" so he is back to form. Spouting inaccurate or flat out incorrect information. Balance, harmony and order have been restored.
But then you have people who can't even pronounce a new word when they run into it. And I'm not talking about weird words with silent letters and stuff like that, but ones that could be pronounced perfectly if you sound them out phonetically.Phonics should be reserved for slow kids who can't otherwise learn normally. The preferred method to teach kids to read and write is the whole word reading method. Many school districts across the country have switched to teaching straight phonics and watched their reading levels and graduation rates plummet. This can't all be put on the switch to phonics but it has contributed.
I'm sure there are worse languages, and yes, definitely some which are more logical.English isn't very phonic friendly with its fucking silent letters and random other bullshit
idk, I hate the argument that kids should be punished because their parents have checked out.The only thing that should be taught in school are subjects like math, reading, science. The rest of the stuff like cooking, how to change a tire, sex, personal responsibility , etc are things PARENTS should be teaching their kids. Too many parents are leaving it to the schools to raise their kids.
I was fortunate to have a mother that required all of us kids wash clothes, cook, clean, and my dad made me help him with the car and showed me how to use a gun and to respect what it could do at the age of 6 , I remember that talk like it was yesterday. He also took me to the river on weekends to teach me how to swim and dive. It wasn't some PE teacher showing me how.
Schools need to get back to the basics and stop trying to be parental substitutes.
Its taught as a theory which may or may not be right. Then there is a small bit about intelligent design.
idk, I hate the argument that kids should be punished because their parents have checked out.
idk, I hate the argument that kids should be punished because their parents have checked out.
I'm sure there are worse languages, and yes, definitely some which are more logical.
And English doesn't do well with the Information Age.
Google for "bank."
Ok, are you looking for a place to keep money, sloping terrain by a river, or an action a plane can perform? Geez, they even consist of two nouns and a verb.
"Calculus" - it's either a field of mathematics or a deposit on your teeth.
"Ass" - the buttockular region, or a relative of a horse.
But I doubt we're to the point (yet) of assembling a new language designed for searchability. Then you have instances of silly made-up words like "buttockular."
Hell, people even get in a sentimental and chest-pounding mood over language.
ENRGISH MOTHERFORK! Speaking it fluently is blessing!English Is the Language of the Gods! It is infallible, and we must teach it to everyone!!!!!!
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2 per semester for 3 years = 6 math classes. Ideally, I think math should be blended with almost every class in order to make the math and the other subject material easier to understand. I remember having problems with grade 11 physics because the equations being used were based on calculus, so the only way to do it was to just remember it. How the hell does one know that distance is (1/2)*acceleration* time^2? How would anyone guess that? If you were lucky enough to take calculus before taking grade 11 physics, you would know exactly where that comes from, and it would be much easier to remember. Calculus also made geometry a lot easier. If you can remember the area of a sphere is 4*pi*r^2, you can figure out the volume is (4/3)*pi*r^3 because the volume is found by integrating the surface area with respect to the radius. Instead of needing to remember 2 equations, you only need the 1. The same thing applies to circumference vs area of a circle. The pi*r^2 area formula is found by integrating the 2*pi*r circumference. Again, that's half as many formulas to remember. If you're just memorizing them, it's easy to accidentally confuse the two formulas. If you understand it from a calculus perspective, using r^2 for a circumference makes absolutely no sense because circumference is a 1-dimensional value.AFAIK, high schools generally require 3 years of math... you're suggesting 6?
They also teach that releasing captured CO2 that was NOT part of the O2->CO2->O2 cycle will fuck up the eco system... You global warming deniers just don't get it, no body is pissing and moaning about burning trees except for the pollution they make, what we're pissing and moaning about is that we're putting Co2 that was NOT part of the eco system as it was sequestered in the medium you call "oil, coal, methane, etc." and are adding it back. If CO2 isn't going to cause global warming, then how the fuck can you explain a planet like Venus or Jupiter that had just that, out of control global warming caused by green house gasses? It is only logical that when you add something into an ecosystem that wasn't part of it, you're going to change things. CO2 is most certainly a green house gas, no doubt about that!
Just imagine if we could bring back dinosaurs, THEN tell me with a straight face that doing that wouldn't fuck up some major shit.