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

[truerevelation]

Yeah.
You know I wasn't ever great at school. But if someone'd ever bothered to say 'hey, this is what this stuff is good for' rather than just 'sit down 'n shut up 'cause I said so' before my last year... maybe I woulda done better sooner.
Makes a hell of a lot of difference.

[claudiometer]

Exactly. And aren't you guys basically past the 'required' part anyway? At that point you're better off learning things because you want to, but the people who designed it are still expecting kids to care because they're told to.

[truerevelation]

The whole system's screwed up.

Did I ever tell ya I was thinkin' about goin' into teaching when I got out of high school? Nothin' for sure. But ... I sorta wondered. If I could get through to a kid in my situation, or do what my old history teacher did for me...
But it woulda meant bein' part of all that.

Eh. I dunno. I'm just thinkin' crap.

[claudiometer]

You'd be a good one. You know your stuff, and you know how to make it interesting.

...Though really, especially since you're in the art end of things, who says you can't have both? Do the shop crap and have craft classes on the side. It'd be easier to really interact with the people who wanted to learn it, and you could help without being held to the education-industrial complex's stupid standards. I know American schools are terrible about the arts, and Japan's even more test-happy, so God only knows how they handle that.

[truerevelation]

Huh. Ma used to run classes for the little kids, now I think about it. Might be somewhere to start.

[claudiometer]

In this case, there's no reason not to have your cake and eat it too. You don't have to go to school to know how to teach people to knit. Maybe for some of the business stuff, but not what you'd want to teach.

[truerevelation]

Well, it ain't like I ain't got time to think about it, right?

[claudiometer]

That you do.

You would make an amazing teacher, though. It's just a question of where to put that talent that wouldn't crush the spirits of everyone involved.

[truerevelation]

[Is that a laugh there?]

Heh. Thanks.