Comment by vpribish
3 months ago
That's awful - just an awful way to teach. It's from more than a century ago when the point was to tame the children and turn them into good Prussian soldiers.
You don't have to start with anxiety, shame, and dominance - you can start with curiosity, a base of common understanding, and then experiment and problem solving.
What's awful is thinking that making mistakes is a form of shame, and that being corrected is a form of dominance. That view is something that is taught and acquired and I am very thankful that the people who taught me never made me feel that way. I make mistakes all the time and I never have to feel ashamed about it, nor do I feel that the people in my life who I've learned from hold some kind of position of power over me.
It's good that no one did it to you, but are you sure that you never try to do it to anyone else?
You win my comment-of-the day award with grace and subtlety.
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>It's from more than a century ago when the point was to tame the children and turn them into good Prussian soldiers.
If you judge by the outcome, that is probably the greatest education system of all time.
>You don't have to start with anxiety, shame, and dominance - you can start with curiosity, a base of common understanding, and then experiment and problem solving.
You can. The kids will learn nothing though.
School nowadays is a joke. An absolute waste of time. In a single semester of rigorous mathematics I learned more than in years in school. It is cruel to waste childrens time like that.
School needs to be authoritarian, rigorous and selective.
Yikes