Very interesting. |
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When I was in highschool, I transfered to a different school at the end of my sophmore year. The first school I attended, was your normal city school. 3,000+ students, run of the mill classes etc... |
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Very interesting. |
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I'm sure it would be. Unfortuately the federal government has decided to take over the schools and tell everybody what tests they have to pass, so that's what they teach for now--passing a test. |
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Interestingly enough the exact opposite happened to me. I moved from a 4000+ school to a school with about 150 kids. The education here at the small school is much more limited, and unfortuinately doesnt offer any classes besides the basic. |
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I guess it depends on what you want to study. You can allow creativity and a more flexible curriculum for subjects like the arts, but things like natural sciences need a rigid structure where the student is basically crammed with as much information as he can handle (it's the only way to get anything done in such a short amount of time). Human sciences fall somewhere in between. |
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Curriculum is often based upon textbooks that are designed to be ineffective and, as a consequence, the instruction of a class is confined to the boundaries of a book that impairs learning instead of promoting it. As many a scholar has remarked, students learn in spite of their books, not because of them. |
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I've always believed that schools should start at a later time. To me everything 5th grade and before is, well, time that could be better used developing at home with family, with friends, with hobbies and what have you. With the internet and with the means within the reach of the average person I don't think there's any excuse for the death of creativity. Schools, however, are trying to compete for standardized testing scores and the students are almost a non-issue in the whole thing. |
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How would you feel to take John Dewey's appraoch to education? I ask because this seems to be significantly inspired by him. |
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^I think that would be a step up. It invlovees thinking for yourself. Education today is more about regurgatation. Your head acts as a container to store information until test time, when it dumps it all. |
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