Thoughts On Teaching For Future Teachers (Long)
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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