Re:What Was the Ted Talk?
by martingoodson on Monday February 07, 2022 @10:58AM
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Perhaps we should adopt the Elizabethan school system then. All lessons were in Latin and students were punished for speaking English. 'Memorising texts and performing endlessly tedious translations of Latin phrases was the norm [...]. Creating situations of competition between pupils with an atmosphere of fear of physical punishment and humiliation was the usual approach.'[1]
Modern students might find a few exams preferable to this.
[1] https://www.worldhistory.org/article/1583/education-in-the-e...
What counted as formal education of the past is barely applicable to the education systems of the present. Shakespeare didn't spend half of his teen years getting coached in state and national examinations, nor were his teachers subject to performance targets that demanded test results from their students above all else.