What’s keeping it fringe is partly that schools do childcare, domestication and ranking well and that’s way over 90% of what the average person wants out of them. If education was a large part of what people wanted out of school we’d see a lot more experimentation and variety. As it is we don’t even have skill or competency grouped classes. If there is a country in the world where grade skipping is common I have not heard of it. Maybe age based grouping is the best thing for most children most of the time but there isn’t a government education system that doesn’t use it. That isn’t a system maximising for learning.
Basic literacy and numeracy are obviously great but the way instruction is structured is ludicrously inefficient in terms of using children’s time. You can teach a nine year old to read in 50 hours. The graduates of democratic schools like Sudbury or Summerhill don’t even have classes and they do fine in life.
School looks like an institution designed to get people used to sitting down, shutting up and doing as they’re told.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Taylor_Gatto
What’s keeping it fringe is partly that schools do childcare, domestication and ranking well and that’s way over 90% of what the average person wants out of them. If education was a large part of what people wanted out of school we’d see a lot more experimentation and variety. As it is we don’t even have skill or competency grouped classes. If there is a country in the world where grade skipping is common I have not heard of it. Maybe age based grouping is the best thing for most children most of the time but there isn’t a government education system that doesn’t use it. That isn’t a system maximising for learning.
Basic literacy and numeracy are obviously great but the way instruction is structured is ludicrously inefficient in terms of using children’s time. You can teach a nine year old to read in 50 hours. The graduates of democratic schools like Sudbury or Summerhill don’t even have classes and they do fine in life.
School looks like an institution designed to get people used to sitting down, shutting up and doing as they’re told.
https://www.overcomingbias.com/2016/04/school-is-to-submit.h...