School spends a long time “wasting” our time but learning things is a great way to learn how to interpret information and make actual informed decisions
School spends a long time “wasting” our time but learning things is a great way to learn how to interpret information and make actual informed decisions
In theory, partly.
In practice, it’s more of a check the box thing for teachers.
Most teachers, franky, suck. I say this as someone with family in that world, and having been a technical instructor.
Being effective is not easy, throw an awful bureacracy on top and even good teachers will suck, because they can’t fight two battles simultaneously.
Having watched the US educational system go to shit over decades because of the growth of the admin really tells the story. My first university tripled their admin since I went there, yet the student body has grown only incrementally. The stories I hear from family attending - the bullshit from admin is astounding.
Yeah english class activities we had were not on citing sources or thinking critically. We learned how to read and write fast and that was most of it.
As example there was those multiple choice questions asking stuff like “which paragraph had this sentence in it.” What does that even teach?
Hell I used to be praised for writing huge paragraphs of text. Then found out splitting into small ones makes it more readable by my own testing.
I learned where to use who and whom in a LoTR meme posted on lemmy ffs.
So yeah it was mostly children being used for checkboxes to get funding and whatnot.