Education Fix, Guaranteed to Work

To all> Lots of good thoughts but none of us have the clout to fix the problems.

Might as well delete: Education Fix, Guaranteed to Work because it did not work.

Bye y’all

yes teachers are required to follow a curriculum, but how they go about teaching them
is entirely up to them.

Most students aren’t going to be eager to learn, unless the teacher is eager to teach.

Every little thing in this world no matter how small, or how big can effect someone’s life greatly.

Everything that all of us come across in our lives effects us in some way, shape, or form.

I’m sure if you stayed and made posts on other threads, or made other Threads,
you’d contribute greatly to the intellectualness of this Forum. You’d also possibly enjoy the intellectual debates yourself.

But if you must go, then “to each is their own.” Thank you for your service of being a teacher for all of those years. It’s not an easy profession to be in.

<<Most students aren’t going to be eager to learn, unless the teacher is eager to teach.> >

Great comments, but as a Texas teacher I do know that despite how well we teach, it is all about our
presentation skills. Nothing in our entire program about making sure that the students will remember what they are being taught. Such a waste.We are all evaluated on how well we execute the Student Learning Objectives, aka SLO which is one of the dumbest acronyms of all time.

I did a quick search and carpe diem means: “Seize the day, put very little trust in tomorrow (the future)”.

That is so cool.

Too bad Sean the Great will not get involved.

The chances of any non famous person reaching out to a famous person and then becoming rich or famous off of it, or even known for anything, is extremely rare. You’re not the only one. It’s happened millions of times before you.

Que sera, sera.

Part of the problem in this is that most of the American people are ignorant to some of the things you suggest and or just accept the way we do higher education as it is and its costs. Keep talking to others and continue trying to get your message out.

There is a certain amount of flexibility but there is not a tremendous amount of variation between teachers. Do you really believe that an Algebra 1 class is going to be radically different from on teacher to the next? And believe me there is only so many ways to present a specific subject matter.

Regarding students being eager to learn, there are many other factors with that no matter who the teacher is. As a former high school teacher I can tell you that is much more dependent upon who the student is and their parents, which is why many teachers do not won’t to work in the inner city schools.

We’ll have to agree to disagree on this one.

Obviously you and Teacher have been teachers before, so you know what it’s like first hand, and I do not. But I do consider myself a little different than probably most of the students out there now adays. At least at a College level of learning. In high school I didn’t care. In college I did. In high school a student is forced to go to school. College is a choice. It changes the game entirely, because each student has to worry about how they’re going to get money to pay for college, hence making it a lot more valuable that they actually learn, and get good grades. Than again, now adays with Bernie Sanders and Socialists taking over the country, they want free Liberal brainwashing College for everyone.

I personally don’t think we disagree all that much. Again I speak as someone who taught in a high school in which the system forces everyone to do things they don’t want to do and force them to learn stuff that they have no interest in. This is especially true with the lower level students.

I completely agree that a person can change their feelings about school when they get older and mature. The biggest problem with higher education - and I’ll say this over and over again - is that much of what is done is on a practical level a complete waste of time that will add nothing to a persons productivity in the workforce.

That’s not a useful statement. Education is not just for being productive in the work place.

I don’t buy the argument that the first two years of college are high school all over again. Now, maybe the first month of every semester in freshman level classes are high school again, but I found that after that, it was new material. That’s why so many freshmen have problems. They know everything the first couple of weeks, so they give up on studying, etc.

I didn’t say that, notice the emphasis. American students get a general education in all the key basic subject areas from K to 8th grade. So in other words they are getting a basic education for 9 years. By the time they get to high school they are 14-15 years old. At this point we have a very good idea of which students are going to have more success academically. Hence the goal of publically funded education should not be about trying to make well-rounded polymaths out of every student but to encourage the one who are more academic to go further and to give more options to those who are not to seek out areas in our labor force in a more expeditious manner.