How school harms introverted teachers and students (The Atlantic)

[Gabriela]

1 minute ago, NadaTeTurbe said:

This is kind, but all the merit goes to HopefulHeart that you just quoted ! 

I think that all of us should open a school. 

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LOL!

[MarysLittleFlower]

On ‎30‎/‎01‎/‎2016‎ ‎6‎:‎25‎:‎57‎, NadaTeTurbe said:

For me, it's also another symptom of a world who refuse the idea of the Truth... Maybe I'm extrapolating... But in a world where there's not ONE Truh, but where everybody can build its own "truth", well, the idea of someone speaking, passing down one knowledge who is true, while other people just listen and accept it, this idea is "bad". Better let people building their own things. I don't know if I'm clear. 

Also, group work can be horrible for people with learning disability. I'm a good student, so my teacher never think about my disability (Elhers Danlos Syndrom and severe dyspraxia https://www.dyspraxiafoundation.org.uk/about-dyspraxia/ ). For me, the best way to learn is to listen, write something, and having only one sheet of papers, with simple page setting. I struggled a lot in high school when we have to "buit by ourselves" and we had one billion of papers with numerous colours, etc... Impossible to focus on it. 

I'm studying history right now, and it's perfect, because you can't really do group work in history. We just sit, listen to our teachers (who are very good orators), write, ask questions, and learn. And only then, when we know something, we can train to critical thinking. 

Mary, you're a teacher ? Can I ask in wich level ? I'd like to be a teacher later  

I agree with you Nada about the idea of Truth not being accepted and how that can affect the educational system. In many ways the current educational system in schools is based on the idea that "students construct their own truth" and "their own learning". That's where all this might actually be coming from, and I heard this same view one time in an article that compared schools in the past to today. Students used to memorize poetry etc and learn about culture because it was assumed we have something to learn from the past.. now it's all about constructing your own reality and being creative, and it's ignored that to be creative in a topic you first have to really know it. Anyway that's something I noticed in my teachers college education (which I didn't always agree with). I teach kindergarten to grade 6  I teach in 'public' Catholic schools but they're not as Catholic as they can be.. and these modern ideas are very popular in them too. I try to just tell the kids the truth and teach them the faith, and integrate simple old fashioned learning. I find with all the technology everywhere perhaps, the attention spans are much shorter than when I was in grade 1.