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one aim of education #276

Open ajschumacher opened 3 years ago

ajschumacher commented 3 years ago

New goal: Getting up to speed on humanity

https://planspace.org/2014/01/11/aims-of-education/

ajschumacher commented 3 years ago

"Music and poetry are more important than carburetors and calculus, because both the bus driver and I would be better human beings if we had more in common and because we could then collaborate better to live in a saner world." (page 30, Halmos, I want to be a mathematician)

ajschumacher commented 3 years ago

Lemov's book is titled "Teach Like a Champion 2.0: 62 Techniques that Put Students on the Path to College"... Regardless of whether college is a good goal (probably yes, I think) I kind of object to phrasings of the goal of school as being about achieving some other thing... The goal of pre-college as being college, the goal of college being a job, the goal of a job being retirement or whatever...

Take also the example of all the interview-prep schools/products... (see: #275) Is prep for the interview very different from prep for doing the job? Why? Is that a good thing?

What about education that's immediately beneficial to you? Isn't that more compelling?

ajschumacher commented 3 years ago

"As we know, children are complex and classrooms more complex still. We're probably interested in more than students 'merely' acquiring new skills and knowledge within the domains of the subjects we teach. We may also have an interest in fostering a 'love of learning' and turning students into 'lifelong learners'. Whatever the current trend might be, we want our students to somehow be changed and improved by their experiences in school." (page 309, Didau, What if everything you knew about education was wrong?)

ajschumacher commented 2 years ago

not sure where to put this... thinking about strength-building as in Buckingham/Clifton, vs. fixing problems or avoiding weaknesses... education as discovering strengths? paired with ensuring a baseline level everywhere? breadth for baselines, then focus on building strengths, to be "t-shaped"?

also, possible connection: focusing on strengths focuses on positive reinforcement, rather than negative... maybe that's part of why it's a good idea?