HeliographApr 15, 2023
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Show threadVivian Schey 🏳️‍🌈 🇩🇪 <(FSM)<{Apr 15, 2023

@Heliograph

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.

Show threadAlexander 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.
Apr 18, 2023 at 6:13pmWeb
Show threadVivian Schey 🏳️‍🌈 🇩🇪 <(FSM)<{Apr 18, 2023

@AlexCorby @Heliograph

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...