Thoughts On Teaching For Future Teachers (Long)
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It's a system so broken it needs to be torn down and rebuilt. Most of the childhood education is perfectly fine at home with no specialized teachers.
There's loads of problems with this in the modern society though. Responsibility for education has to fall on the kids parents, period. That means there will have to be a ton more nuclear families. The few kids that are left out because their parent died or was a rare divorce can school with their friends families. None of this works in cities because they all hate each other and at least half of them won't even bother at all, so they won't get any education and will end up stupider than they are now. At a certain point the notion of trying to pick everyone up has to stop though. It sucks because they are kids that essentially have to be left to crash and burn, but we can't keep cutting everyone else's legs off to make them equal to the one who has no legs.
I don't see society as a whole ever getting fixed this drastically, so the only fix I can come up with is do it yourself on whatever scale you can manage, and gatekeep the bullshit out aggressively.
And that involves touching the real third rail of politics: Cleaning up the corrupt family courts and inconveniencing the women who abuse the situation to grift out a living. You can't have stable nuclear families when one party to that arrangement is financially incentivized to destroy it.
There's still a need for specialized education for progression beyond what the parents know. My mother was unable to help me with my math homework once I started trigonometry, and for a lot of people that help becomes impossible at pre-algebra. We would still need a way to keep retards and pedophiles out of that even if we implemented homeschooling at the lower levels.
I was thinking things like trig being outside of childhood education. I guess it's still childhood technically but I wasn't clear. I might end up being a trig teacher in a year or two for my cousin if I can manage it. We don't live in the same town and I'm not sure I'll be of much use trying to homeschool trig over the phone, but I'll try.
Still, I don't think we can totally rid of a more formal education at a certain point. Just I would gear it towards work and it would start as a younger teen and not a nearly 20 year old. Only in fields where it would be needed and not set to a certain age.
I'm sure my plan is full of holes, but well this is all so broken as it is that I wonder if there is even a solution.
When you say real world I hope you mean "everyday" rather than "everything above trig is theoretical".
But that's true for the overwhelming majority of people.
We dutifully teach everyone imaginary numbers in high school, and the EE's are probably the lowest rung on the education totem pole that makes practical use of them. And EE's aren't exactly low on that pole.
For everyone else it's "oh you can take the square root of a negative number. That's kinda neat, I guess..."
Okay, I get you now. I think we agree but are just using different terminology to describe things.
Do you need trig for that? I cheated through trig and have put up siding. Just seemed like algebra to me
There you go.
On top of this, I think right now is the perfect time to rebuild it. Not only because of how broken the system is but also how outdated it is in relation to today's world. The sheer access to knowledge, information, experts, and tools today is completely unparalleled. And there's a lot of unanswered and unexplored questions as to what would be more effective approaches for learning in this day and age.
The old education model is just too bloated, sluggish, and bureaucratically managed to possibly catch up to what we need. Not to mention corrupt, twisted, and broken beyond repair.
I mean hells, I actually don't think I've heard this one brought up, but just imagine if you as a parent could train or design your own AI model as a partial replacement to traditional teachers. (I say partial because I think it's still important for kids to learn and interact with real human beings, and interact with the real world in general)
The predecessor to the school and the "teacher" was the "tutor" (not to be confused with the denigrated form we think of today), and I think that position needs to again rise to prominence in houses which educate their children themselves.
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