What should be taught in grade school that isn't?

  On 10/27/2013 at 2:31 PM, Hoodie said:

you guys are all saying "kids should learn THIS" without thinking about how difficult it is to teach kids these things. i remember being in elementary school and teachers would try to teach us "critical thinking" by having us fill out diagrams with the "steps to thinking critically." i learned fuck-all from that and that's the sort of program you get when you say vague shit like "we should teach our kids critical thinking." you know who actually taught me critical thinking? when i was in the 7th grade, mr. bradley, my science teacher, told us gargoyles were real. he showed us a skull and told us its taxonomic classification. it went on for a couple of months until he revealed he was putting on a ruse. he told us to always question what people told us. never to accept something as just true because of authority. he also screened cosmos for us. we need more mr. bradleys instead of vague curricula that, in practice, turn into repetitive worksheets that teach our children nothing.

need more of these guys. and also, its not just how difficult it is to teach kids those things. Adults have problems learning that shit. A world where the Iphone is never separated from the individual is an odd world indeed.

I think teacher's should be required to rip a huge line of powdered cocang before each class so they don't act like they hate their life and their job.

Or the teachers that hate their life and their job should be required to teach Kierkegaard and Camus.

  On 10/27/2013 at 5:10 AM, SR4 said:

critical thinking.

 

 

One half of my students blindly accept everything I say. The other half believe that everything I say is incorrect due to their own held political or other perceptions.

This

1st aid

and then what?

2nd aid?

( dealing with cops and insurance..)