kasran, fourier transfemmeJun 28, 2017

here's a good thing to tell school-age children: the textbooks they use to learn are made by people, and those people might gloss over or omit parts of the whole truth, accidentally or intentionally

basically just teach kids to be critical of their sources of info and ask really good questions

Show threadCaitlin, but becoming a doggoJun 28, 2017
@typhlosion it's also important to say when you don't know and look it up together, including checking sources. So they learn how to as a part of the learning experience
Show threadkasran, fourier transfemmeJun 28, 2017
@Sailorplutoid exactly! it's all part of learning how to learn responsibly, which most schools apparently do a terrible job of
Show threadFlorianJun 28, 2017

@typhlosion @Sailorplutoid I ended up told by professors at university that the secondary school I went to has a reputation for being "very good at teaching people to learn but very poor at teaching them to study"

and that the reason for this reputation is that it causes Issues when people graduating from the school crash face first into the wider education system

Show threadkasran, fourier transfemmeJun 28, 2017
@Sailorplutoid @theoutrider sounds like the "everyone else is with me so *you* must be the wrong one" argument?
Show threadFlorian
@typhlosion @Sailorplutoid no, the professors were acutely aware that the Bavarian education system even at an early academic level largely expects regurgitation rather than understanding, and that my secondary school fosters the latter rather than the former
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Show threadkasran, fourier transfemmeJun 28, 2017
@Sailorplutoid @theoutrider oh okay cool