Malik Greatly Disapproves. Again.

[loyalrebel]

[It's been a while since Malik's spoken up on the network but this is something drastic to him and it needs addressing.]

It has been recently brought to my attention that the education system of modern times is sorely lacking in a number of regards.

I was told that beyond the basics of reading and mathematics anything else was not important and was not even taught, and this desperately needs to be rectified.

We may be learning magic and other such things from our overlays, but there are areas that are horrifically left by the wayside in this arms race we have entered in to.

I may not know much about history as it is from most of your perspectives but there has to be educators among us or at least those who will be willing to step up and help the children among us not return home uneducated louts who respond to the idea of mathematics or reading with "why should I care?" or "it is too difficult".

[He's not sorry Phillip. This is probably your fault kid.]

Comments

[awitchdidit]

Even as of about 1986, most of the really interesting subjects had to be self-taught. My apprentice, for example, is an autodidactic little genius when it comes to mysticism and theology, but did poorly with the structure of schools in her time.

I'm more of a dabbler, but if you need any help when it comes to reading or literature, I'm positive I can make such subjects entertaining even to the more jaded teenagers here.

[thornsofmalkav]

I'd be good with you helping me out on the literary front. I mean, I want to do it and justify my thus-far useless degree, but I don't mind collaborating. We work well together, anyway.

[awitchdidit]

It would be to the students' advantage to have a teacher who learned how to diagram a story in a laboratory rather than the field, as it were.

Plus, I'll admit that my English grammar could use some improvement...

[thornsofmalkav]

I'd be happy to help with that.