Posted by alexandra_k on February 20, 2005, at 13:12:08
In reply to Re: school » alexandra_k, posted by Toph on February 20, 2005, at 8:04:22
... and the 9's were brown. I swear the 9's were brown.
> that Davie Robertson pushed me off of the jungle gym causing me to fall 20 feet to the asphalt (before some genius thought it best to use wood chips). Now that I think of it, I'm going to use this excuse from now on when I get blocked.
he he, tis worth a try :-)
> Tasks were succesful if done a certain way. A child was redirected if he pretended that a block for the pink tower was imagined to be a truck, for example.Yeah, I wondered.
I have to say I am not a fan of 'free learning' or the idea that kids should do just whatever they want and that after a while they will want to do stuff they need to learn. I mean, what kid *wants* to memorize their times table? What kid *wants* to work on increasing their attention span? I dare say a middle ground is to be had between *making* them do stuff and letting them do whatever they want.
> After all, it seems to me that good education has less to do with technique and curriculum as it does with good teachers.
Yup. Just like many a therapist (well ok so maybe not that many) is able to transcend what is (IMO) a bad theory.
>I have posted about some of my experiences with good and bad ones in the past. alex, what percentage of your superior (in my opinion) intellect do you suppose is attributable to fortunate genes, fine teachers, or hard work?
Oh ha ha.
Seriously though, people do have trouble working out why it is that I am not a borderline idiot. There is one thing that I will always be thankful to my mother for: she taught me to read. She read to me ever since I can remember and she would read me simple kids books too and move her finger along the page to the word she was reading. I was reading by 4 and that is all thanks to her.
And once you can read you just need to be thrown the odd book every now and then...
But I did go to a pretty good (pretty small) school for the first 4 years. That gave me a good head start on the public school system. (Bout 2 or 3 years worth to tell you the truth).
So then I got to be lazy till my university enterance year. (thats why I can't do math - math is cumulative and I couldn't be bothered since well before I started High School). Just scraped entry to uni. Not till there that I discovered a whole world of reading and writing...
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