Across time zones, age groups and socioeconomic lines, young people appear to be hitting a breaking point that developmental psychologists are calling the "pandemic wall." Here's why and what to do about it.
Don't get me wrong, learning is important, but I don't have tons of fond memories of great learning opportunities in school.
I’m not really sure the answer to our current learning daycares, but the way we do it now is awful and not the answer.
One thing we could do is remove 95% of administrators. Maybe teach children about how to properly socialize and build community. Let kids explore their environment. Don’t make them sit for hours at a time having to listen their teachers drone on and on.
Idk. Personally, as a kid I wouldn't want to learn how to do taxes. I'd rather take the integral of a polynomial function.
I had several of these classes in middle and high school, and it ranges from Jordan Peterson style "rules for living" to "practice doing office work". The latter can be actually useful and fun, if done well and for a job you're interested in, but I also don't want the entire school system geared around that.
And also teach them a lot about the natural world outside of society, so they respect and understand that it's a part of them they can't live without and not something to exploit and destroy.
We were not allowed to go to the library during lunch, before or after school, or at any time unless you were going as a class or you had a pass from a teacher. I wish I was making this up.
My school was like a prison tbh. Seemed like psychopaths were in charge and only taught/policed kids as a way to exert power and authority they couldn’t exercise elsewhere in life.
We were not allowed to go to the library during lunch, before or after school, or at any time unless you were going as a class or you had a pass from a teacher. I wish I was making this up.
Same, I remember thinking wtf is this here for then? Decoration?
I’m not really sure the answer to our current learning daycares, but the way we do it now is awful and not the answer.
One thing we could do is remove 95% of administrators. Maybe teach children about how to properly socialize and build community. Let kids explore their environment. Don’t make them sit for hours at a time having to listen their teachers drone on and on.
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Idk. Personally, as a kid I wouldn't want to learn how to do taxes. I'd rather take the integral of a polynomial function.
I had several of these classes in middle and high school, and it ranges from Jordan Peterson style "rules for living" to "practice doing office work". The latter can be actually useful and fun, if done well and for a job you're interested in, but I also don't want the entire school system geared around that.
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And also teach them a lot about the natural world outside of society, so they respect and understand that it's a part of them they can't live without and not something to exploit and destroy.
Exactly, let them explore and discover the world. That's what learning is all about!
Libraries are the most important part of any school. They're what gives you freedom to explore.
We were not allowed to go to the library during lunch, before or after school, or at any time unless you were going as a class or you had a pass from a teacher. I wish I was making this up.
My school was like a prison tbh. Seemed like psychopaths were in charge and only taught/policed kids as a way to exert power and authority they couldn’t exercise elsewhere in life.
Same, I remember thinking wtf is this here for then? Decoration?
I would spend a lot of lunch breaks in libraries. I learnt to love learning more from those books than any teacher.