Re:What Was the Ted Talk?
by have_faith on Monday February 07, 2022 @07:28AM
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> the joke being, of course, that it's ludicrous to think anyone ever tried to teach English to the greatest English writer of all time
This isn't the joke exactly. It's a joke about what could have happened should Shakespeare at age seven had a miserable english education like many current people's experience. His argument throughout the talk is not anti-school or anti-teacher, his contention is with the arrangement of these elements that produce what we think of today as the schooling system. He's not advocating for children not to have teachers.
> Isn't the logical conclusion the opposite? That Shakespeare's English teacher was the best English teacher there ever was
If it was down to the brilliance of the teacher then that teacher could just produced more Shakespeare's throughout their career.
This isn't the joke exactly. It's a joke about what could have happened should Shakespeare at age seven had a miserable english education like many current people's experience. His argument throughout the talk is not anti-school or anti-teacher, his contention is with the arrangement of these elements that produce what we think of today as the schooling system. He's not advocating for children not to have teachers.
> Isn't the logical conclusion the opposite? That Shakespeare's English teacher was the best English teacher there ever was
If it was down to the brilliance of the teacher then that teacher could just produced more Shakespeare's throughout their career.