Politics (and other political stuff)
Politics (and other political stuff)
(08 Apr 2016, 1:50 pm)James101 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-35968423
YES
Our education system is set up to push young people into further and higher education and damn them if they'd like to do anything else.
The people in charge of education live in an isolated bubble world where they themselves have obediently travelled through the education system right through university and have then landed a job in education to start the whole cycle again. What's missing is any real experience. It's then compounded by teachers getting so wrapped up in meeting targets and getting pupils through tests with such narrowly defined curriculum that the end result is not a well rounded individual coming out of school but a trained dolphin who can jump through a hoop and tell you some very specific facts about a book they studied for two years or some alien maths formula which has no application in the real world.
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Teaching is a wonderful vocation and very few of us are brave enough to take it on. Most teachers are wonderful people and inspire children every day. It's the people in charge of the education system who are guiding teachers and their pupils in the wrong way.
(08 Apr 2016, 1:50 pm)James101 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-35968423
YES
Our education system is set up to push young people into further and higher education and damn them if they'd like to do anything else.
The people in charge of education live in an isolated bubble world where they themselves have obediently travelled through the education system right through university and have then landed a job in education to start the whole cycle again. What's missing is any real experience. It's then compounded by teachers getting so wrapped up in meeting targets and getting pupils through tests with such narrowly defined curriculum that the end result is not a well rounded individual coming out of school but a trained dolphin who can jump through a hoop and tell you some very specific facts about a book they studied for two years or some alien maths formula which has no application in the real world.
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Teaching is a wonderful vocation and very few of us are brave enough to take it on. Most teachers are wonderful people and inspire children every day. It's the people in charge of the education system who are guiding teachers and their pupils in the wrong way.
