Comment Re:Hrmm (Score 1) 935
When I was in grade school (the 1950's) there was a serious movement among the teachers (mostly coaches) in my little farm community to limit the use of the library. They felt STRONGLY that it got in the way of academic performance.
I know you can see this one coming ... . What it got in the way of was quietly accepting all the errors in the text books and the lesson plans. Kids who read a lot tended to question (and correct) a lot. Not the favorite thing of a bunch of jocks turned teacher.
As an anthropologist, I can tell you that education has far more to do with making children into immaculate members of the culture than it does with teaching them useful skills, facts, or how to leverage what they have learned into still more learning.
I know you can see this one coming
As an anthropologist, I can tell you that education has far more to do with making children into immaculate members of the culture than it does with teaching them useful skills, facts, or how to leverage what they have learned into still more learning.
