tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8497093028548856666.post2582370658623473094..comments2024-03-22T11:14:05.861-04:00Comments on UncleBob's Treehouse: Partying is What Got Me Through High SchoolAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16046202647270439670noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8497093028548856666.post-66149391055744329192014-06-26T13:04:09.598-04:002014-06-26T13:04:09.598-04:00'If you don't in school just what the heck...'If you don't in school just what the heck are you supposed to do?'<br /><br />I guess that was a rhetorical question, but in case that it wasn't, this are some of the things that kids learn in school:<br />- to comply with authority figures.<br />- that there's a social pecking order (a 'cool gang').<br />- cognitive dissonance as a skill. I was taught that methane gas was the biggest greenhouse gas in geography, and then taught that CO2 was the biggest greenhouse gas in science. Go figure!<br />- learn information that is not needed in the real world.<br />- that the process of learning is on the whole not enjoyable.<br />- to sit still for hours at a time.<br />- to live in a schedule that breaks the day in to hour long sessions, so that any enthusiasm that may develop during the lesson is quickly destroyed. Like cutting a tree that's in mid-growth, or a runner that's just building up speed.<br /><br />On the whole, the concept of schooling needs to be masively over-hauled.AABhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17046686945000483196noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8497093028548856666.post-55718197890037776342014-06-25T07:36:07.940-04:002014-06-25T07:36:07.940-04:00If you don't in school just what the heck are ...If you don't in school just what the heck are you supposed to do?Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16046202647270439670noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8497093028548856666.post-42650906853735037212014-06-25T06:28:34.633-04:002014-06-25T06:28:34.633-04:00Most of your founding fathers and early presidents...Most of your founding fathers and early presidents were either self-taught or home-schooled, and it certainly didn't do them any harm.<br /><br />Nowadays however, instead of homseschooling and self-teaching(i.e. people learning because they Want to), we have compulsory schooling. And guess what? Literacy and numeracy rates are falling. Hmm, I wonder why? Could it be that people learn more when they actually Want to learn, rather than being forced/coerced into learning?AABhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17046686945000483196noreply@blogger.com