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Many of us remember school as a purgatory. Our memories relating to sitting in the classroom are often tainted with feelings of boredom, annoyance, and thinking that most of this information is useless. Clearly, those who come up with the school curriculum include the basic information every adult should know. Yet, somehow, we find learning through the Internet a lot more satisfying.
So let's tackle the question "Why is school so useless?", shall we? There is a sound reason many of us dislike learning at school. Maria Sanchez writes for Save Our Schools March: "School often focuses too much on rote memorization and standardized tests rather than imparting useful life skills and knowledge." Students feel unengaged with the curriculum because it doesn't relate to their realities.
A frequent criticism of the education system is that the things we teach children in school are impractical. Why do we need all that math if we're going to have a calculator in our pocket at all times anyway? And so what if the mitochondria are the powerhouses of the cell? We can't really apply it anywhere in our daily lives, so how does knowing it benefit us (given that we're not working in a lab of some sort)?
As a child of a teacher and someone who's dabbled in teaching kids for a few months, I have nothing but respect for teachers. I was always a stickler for the rules growing up and, most times, the teacher's favorite. (Parental influence, wink, wink.) So I nodded and agreed with my peers when they would snicker and sneer while learning the Pythagorean theorem, but I still went ahead and learned it.
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Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 9 months ago
From January 25 to 31, 2017, Smith ran marathons in Perth, Australia; Singapore; Cairo, Egypt; Amsterdam, Netherlands; Garden City, New York; Punta Arenas, Chile; and King George Island, Antarctica. It’s part of a challenge called Triple 7 Quest, operated by Marathon Adventures, which planned the itinerary and logistics.
I always felt like, maybe, it's not the theorem itself that is useful, but the process. Maybe school is about learning how to pick up and understand information, not about the information itself. And it's partially true. School is sometimes not about the things we memorize but about the new neural pathways we train our brains to create while doing so.
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Louise Clarke 9 months ago
That is both a very sweet sentiment and it also makes it more educational, seeing the similarities and differences between a human skeleton and a dog one.
We The Differents invites us to think about the learning process more like growing a tree. In primary school, we learn the basics of life, things like reading and writing. Then, in high school, we start to grow the branches of the tree. We start building skills that we'll need throughout life. These include: problem-solving, storing and remembering information, new ways of thinking, and learning how to learn.
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Ines Olabarria-Smith 9 months ago
Marcela Gracia Ibeas and Elisa Sánchez . Elisa came back as Mario. They even got married in church!!! Ther will be a series in Netflix.
So, it's not that big of a deal if we forget how to do ratios. The neural pathways we built will still be there and help us in the future to get jobs and adapt to life. Even if that job will never include mathematics, the brain will have stored knowledge for us to know that numbers are important. When the time comes to make important life decisions, such as buying a car or moving out on your own, the neural pathways that you use to learn and problem-solve will come in handy.
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Cora C 9 months ago
One Chinese girl was found unconscious on roadside. Authority failed to find her family so a local family adopted her. Went to school, got married etc. A new police noticed that the dumplings she made had a very peculiar shape. The police asked netizens for help and was able to identify the area where this type of dumplings was from. The woman finally got to meet her family using DNA test.
It's the principle idea behind Daniel T. Willingham's book Why Don't Students Like School? He's a researcher of cognitive science behind learning, and he claims that knowledge is exponential. Basically, the more we learn, the easier it is to learn new things.
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Anna Ekberg 9 months ago
I think Norway and Finland has something similar if not the same as allemansrätten?
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Dahamada Jamawas 9 months ago
What about people who post about people who post about relationships?
It somewhat negates Einstein’s idea that imagination is more important than knowledge – knowledge is what allows us to imagine. To teach someone 'how' to think, we must first teach them a considerable amount of 'what' to think. We must have some background knowledge so we can learn better.
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John Bababuie 9 months ago
To all the people talking about how they should have used Wood or something else, this was the tundra, where no wood was growing.
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TotallyNOTAFox 9 months ago (edited)
There's always a kind of chivalry in the Air Forces - Manfred von Richthofen's body for example was also treated with respect after he got shot down. A british pilot that had a faulty chute and only survived by being slowed down by trees had a few drink with the germans on the nearby base as that impressed them. And of course the stories about Charlie Brown / Franz Stigler or Ernst Udet / Georges Guynemer
However, that's not to say that the current education system in most Western countries is perfect. The curriculum is still abstract and impractical, focuses more on memorization than understanding, and doesn't consider different learning styles.
That's why many experts advocate for more interactive, hands-on learning. They say that projects, experiments, and group discussions allow the students to apply their knowledge in practical ways.
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Michael Largey 9 months ago
Izzy and his partner Moe used to go into speakeasies and announce "We're Prohibition agents! So serve us a drink." Everyone would just laugh. When Izzy and Moe returned the next day with search and arrest warrants, the laughter died down a bit.
Mathematics can be more interesting, too! When the teacher connects the material to the real world, students become more engaged. For example, they can teach math through real-life scenarios, such as calculating discounts or budgeting.
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Tucker Cahooter 9 months ago
Serves them right for not making chargers commodity items and then gouging people for Apple-specific chargers
It's also important to consider learning styles. The four predominant ones are: auditory, visual, kinaesthetic, and read/write. Some students really learn better by taking notes and reading textbooks. These are most often well-organized people. But the reality is that others struggle to take in information without visual aids and hands-on activities.
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The.Butterfly.Effect.530 9 months ago
It should be banned today. All it does is make it so corporations can ask you to do work when you go home without you protesting.
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Annik Perrot 9 months ago
The Catacombs. A network of ancient stone quarries. Part of it can be visited, among which the "scary" part where the bones from à medieval cemetary were moved to make place for new builds, but there are many other "forbidden" caves and tunnels that only few people know of.
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Aerial (Any pronouns/Canadian/Jewish) 9 months ago
I remember reading somewhere that the mosquitoes he released were male, and therefore would not actually bite anyone. He just wanted to scare them.
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Cosmikid 9 months ago
"It somewhat negates Einstein’s idea that imagination is more important than knowledge – knowledge is what allows us to imagine. " Pretty sure Einstein would not agree with this statement. He DID say "imagination is more important than knowledge" - but it was specifically in regard to questions about discovering "new ideas, " not navigating life. And he also said a couple of times - that the "intuition" he claimed was responsible for his innovations - was constructed solidly on top of - mass knowledge. He didn't know himself exactly how it all worked - but without abundant random information floating around- "intuition" is not likely to happen.
valery77 2 months ago
he said that to justify how bad he was in math and science in general, in fact was his wife, a great mathematician, who deduce the famous formula that it was attributed to him, but anyway he was the one who received the noble prize, not her, the one who actually deserved it.
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Cosmikid 9 months ago
"It somewhat negates Einstein’s idea that imagination is more important than knowledge – knowledge is what allows us to imagine. " Pretty sure Einstein would not agree with this statement. He DID say "imagination is more important than knowledge" - but it was specifically in regard to questions about discovering "new ideas, " not navigating life. And he also said a couple of times - that the "intuition" he claimed was responsible for his innovations - was constructed solidly on top of - mass knowledge. He didn't know himself exactly how it all worked - but without abundant random information floating around- "intuition" is not likely to happen.
valery77 2 months ago
he said that to justify how bad he was in math and science in general, in fact was his wife, a great mathematician, who deduce the famous formula that it was attributed to him, but anyway he was the one who received the noble prize, not her, the one who actually deserved it.
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