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This makes so much sense to me. Thoughts? Many of you have probably seen this but I thought I'd share because my 15 year old showed it to me recently.. one of his teachers shared it with the class.
They lost me when they said "the problem is trying to address the future by doing what we did in the past".
That was around minute 1 and 12 seconds. Many aspects of classical education will never become obsolete as long as you still intend to form humans as opposed to cogs in huge Global machine.
Now, I do understand that society needs to create increasingly specialized and techy cogs in this infernal machine, all while educating humans less and less...but I am not quite ready to understand education as preparing my children to support the economy that serves a few tremendously powerful sharks.
While they will not have the luxury of ignoring the imperatives of market competitiveness and the necessity of a lucrative occupation, I will never give up on teaching them what truly educated people had to know since the Ancients. Given schools don't do it anymore, interested parents have to do it - with lots of sweat involved.
They lost me when they said "the problem is trying to address the future by doing what we did in the past".
That was around minute 1 and 12 seconds. Many aspects of classical education will never become obsolete as long as you still intend to form humans as opposed to cogs in huge Global machine.
Now, I do understand that society needs to create increasingly specialized and techy cogs in this infernal machine, all while educating humans less and less...but I am not quite ready to understand education as preparing my children to support the economy that serves a few tremendously powerful sharks.
While they will not have the luxury of ignoring the imperatives of market competitiveness and the necessity of a lucrative occupation, I will never give up on teaching them what truly educated people had to know since the Ancients. Given schools don't do it anymore, interested parents have to do it - with lots of sweat involved.
Bless you for this post and it's heartening to know there are a few left. Sadly, you're fighting a losing battle.
They lost me when they said "the problem is trying to address the future by doing what we did in the past".
That was around minute 1 and 12 seconds. Many aspects of classical education will never become obsolete as long as you still intend to form humans as opposed to cogs in huge Global machine.
Now, I do understand that society needs to create increasingly specialized and techy cogs in this infernal machine, all while educating humans less and less...but I am not quite ready to understand education as preparing my children to support the economy that serves a few tremendously powerful sharks.
While they will not have the luxury of ignoring the imperatives of market competitiveness and the necessity of a lucrative occupation, I will never give up on teaching them what truly educated people had to know since the Ancients. Given schools don't do it anymore, interested parents have to do it - with lots of sweat involved.
Just wanted to agree with you. Much of what needs to be taught IS what has been taught before. That's the foundation. Yes, we are building a new future but they still need a foundation to build it upon.
Your kids will be better off for you having given them that foundation even if the rest of the world thinks you're too old school.
I fight a losing battle every day because my adminstration does not get that the only way I can teach kids to think critically is first to teach them enough material that they have something to think critically about. THAT appears too old school to them.
There's a reason the Socratic method has lasted hundreds of years....PEOPLE are still PEOPLE. They still learn in the same ways. They still need a foundation before they can build a sky scraper. We're putting the educational cart before the horse to think we can teach critical thinking without content or teach kids to reach the sky without first teaching them to add 2+2.
They lost me when they said "the problem is trying to address the future by doing what we did in the past".
That was around minute 1 and 12 seconds. Many aspects of classical education will never become obsolete as long as you still intend to form humans as opposed to cogs in huge Global machine.
Now, I do understand that society needs to create increasingly specialized and techy cogs in this infernal machine, all while educating humans less and less...but I am not quite ready to understand education as preparing my children to support the economy that serves a few tremendously powerful sharks.
While they will not have the luxury of ignoring the imperatives of market competitiveness and the necessity of a lucrative occupation, I will never give up on teaching them what truly educated people had to know since the Ancients. Given schools don't do it anymore, interested parents have to do it - with lots of sweat involved.
I agree that much of what has been done in the past is good and should be repeated. We need new content as technology marches on but effective teaching methods remain effective no matter how much time passes.
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