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05-27-2002, 04:05 PM | #32 |
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Neb, there's a difference between not liking to learn things because of the teaching method or not liking to learn new things because you deem them useless. From a lot of the posts here, I assumed that the latter was the case. I completely agree that the teachers should strive to present the information in a fun way and try not to be boring, and I can understand why you would grow bored if teachers don't do that.
However, I maintain that kids shouldn't whine about the usefulness of the information they get, as long as it's taught in a fun, entertaining way. An example: in my German class at secondary school, we did an in-depth critical analysis of two of Mozart's operas; one in the 5th year, one in the 6th year. It was very intellectually challenging, with difficult music-critical texts and a lot of work to be done, but almost everybody loved it (even the ones who were sure they weren't gonna need this stuff in their future careers). To a great extent, everybody's enjoyment cam from the way our teacher managed to interest us in the whole thing - he was one of the most erudite and intelligent teachers I had at that school, and it was actually a privilege being taught by him. And that's not just my geeky bookworm opinion, he was very popular (though judged quite weird as well ) with everybody else. [ 05-27-2002, 04:07 PM: Message edited by: Melusine ]
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05-27-2002, 05:02 PM | #33 |
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It can work both ways. Aspects of Maths which are of nearly no use could be taught in a fun fashion (has anybody used cosines out of school?). For instancee, we memorised the rhyme:
Silly Old Harry Caught A Herring Trawling Off Aberdeen S.O.H.C.A.H.T.O.A Sine = Opp/Hypo, ,Cos=Adj/Hypo, ,Tang=Opp/Adj It must have been good as I finished school 14 years ago and still remember that line on the other hand, more useful topics could be taught so badly or boringly that they are not taken in |
05-27-2002, 05:30 PM | #34 |
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The trouble is, the age you kids are when you are in school, you are too young to know what to do with your life. So, since all kids have to go to the same schools, they have to teach the same core curriculum, allowing some custom tracks in High School (or whatever it's equivalent is) and, in college, you study what will be useful in your career. I even recall griping, when I was a premedical student, about studying plant morphology and physiology, because I wasn't going to be treating plants. Well, I have spent more time this weekend treating plants than people (Galadria's garden and our yard). You just never know. By the way, Winston Churchill gave credit to diagramming sentences for his considerable command of the English Language.
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