Fluffytown
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Chris McCabe
Vivian Schey 🏳️🌈 🇩🇪 <(FSM)<{Unfortunately, I know a lot of such teachers...
But despite them telling me to come out of my "imaginary realm", I dug deeper and deeper in it, and now I'm a writer.
Today, schools are not seeing the best in people, and encouraging them to increase that. Instead, they fill kids with useless knowledge to the brim, and hoping the kids will do the best with it.
@TheAuthorVivian sometimes I think we just have to make it through school to find out what you *don't* want, and then you can start life your own way...
Alexander Corby 🇵🇷@TheAuthorVivian @Heliograph As a student, I was also told that I daydream too much. Now, I'm a teacher and I have a lot of empathy for many educators that want to differentiate to suit the kid's learning needs, but get saddled with over a hundred students in one subject (I had 180 at one point). We can only devote so much energy to an individual's progress under those circumstances. We need systemic reform in order to serve students' diverse learning needs.
I remember a youngster here in Germany a couple years ago. He wasn't bad at school, but he wanted to become a car mechanic. He was great, knew everything, even could have disassemble any car, reassemble it, and would have only one screw left of which he even have known where he forgot it. But a Highschool diploma was needed to become an apprentice...so, no job for him. 😥
That's what is in need to be changed. Talent must become important again, not only a degree...
Stargeezer Smith@Heliograph
Great play on words.
I made an Astronomy 101 design on Zazzle that expresses a similar message. It says:
Astronomy 201
(Graphic)
Wait until dark
Look up
https://www.zazzle.com/astronomy_101_t_shirt-235577911993250309