Re:What Was the Ted Talk?
by hypertele-Xii on Monday February 07, 2022 @09:44AM
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One year of one teacher tutoring one student contains far more attention than 12 years of one teacher teaching 30 children.
Also, school is as much a daycare so the parents can go to work, as it is a place of "learning".
Furthermore, you study specifically to pass tests. Actual learning is a secondary side-effect of education.
Re:What Was the Ted Talk?
by JoeAltmaier on Tuesday February 08, 2022 @03:44PM
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Curiously if we stopped trying to teach infants for 12 years, there would be enough teachers to tutor 18-year-olds with proper attention.
Daycare exists already. If that's what we want, that's what we should pay for and get. Seem like theatre to combine the two.
Re:What Was the Ted Talk?
by hypertele-Xii on Tuesday February 08, 2022 @09:56PM
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A great deal of postmodern civilization indeed seems suspiciously much like theatre :)
> So, an entire primary education can be recapitulated in a few months by an 18-year-old.
That’s not exactly fair. During his primary education, he learnt enough to complete it in a few months. This does not tell how long it would have taken had he never gone to school at all.
I asked "So, an entire primary education can be recapitulated in a few months by an 18-year-old. Why then do we torment children with 12 years of schooling? If it isn't necessary?"
He had no answer, being a teacher himself. But I wonder.