Good evening home edders I hope you're having a great night! I popped past to write a post about sports education and it's importance but I saw the challenge and its questions and decided to jump right into it!
Oh, I get worked up with the way modern schooling is done and hopefully by the end you will see why.
Do you believe the way in which your child is being educated is preparing them for the future?
Now this is a hard one and shouldn't be answered easily. Am I teaching Lil miss 3 to be prepared for the future or am I teaching her critical skills to be able to navigate the future and make her own, what ever it is.
Mainstream society has a single view, a robotic view of stages commencing about school, job, pay taxes, meet someone, get married buy a house, have kids, die. Fuck that. I don't live my life like that. Work to live don't live to work.
What traditional frameworks in education are holding it back?
Everything, modern education wasn't developed to train minds and build free thinkers. No, quite the opposite. Is was developed to build the perfect solider, the perfect nurse, the perfect assembly line worker. It was an experiment on seeing if you could condition humans at a young age.
It was developed for a world of the past and delegate you to the fields you aligned with which is why we have grades. They are pointless in reality.
Education hasnt changed much since. It also provided the perfect structure to ensure workers remained at work for long periods. Having pesky kids around that you couldn't use as cheap labour anymore wasn't helping production lines.
Education needs a complete overhaul, everyone learns differently and no one model fits. It also doesn't allow imagination, that was beaten out of kids (literally) also left handed kids were cained until they learned to use their right hand.
Ever wonder why? Try custom making an industrial machine the size of a house every time you get a new worker. No, much easier to bash kids into submitting.
Is the way in which you homeschool the same as you thought it would be when you first started?
No, it's not something I was planning on doing. COVID made it happen and now I'm just going along with it. Not sure if I will return to school once it's over. But the negatives is social interaction and meeting new friends.
What is your favourite teaching/learning moment?
Well, all of it. Don't ask me about the worst because it will also garner the same reply lol. I do enjoy showing/teaching Lil miss 3 something new for the first time. Her mind just explodes and its amazing.
How do we learn?
When I was at uni I read a report that identified modern education being a flawed social experiment (hence my rant above) I looked into it abit more and found out alot. Education or more school was developed with the industrial revolution. What I also learned was that the natural way humans learn was off each other. For millions of years humans learned and upskilled by sharing knowledge and stories through each other.
While we spend hours in school, massive amounts of information was shared or stored in songs, rock paintings, tools and stories. Humans only require a single object to wrap a piece of information around and then by passing that object or referring to the song or painting we remember.
Cultures across the globe did it this way for millennia.
We also learn more and retain information better when it is attached to a positive emotion. That's why the motto "make learning fun" is important. But fun isn't the only emotion that one can attach learning too.
I bet you hold firm memories of bad times at school or learning, you probably don't remember much else from that class apart from that one thing.
Hope you enjoyed reading my post, let me know your thoughts in the comments section below.