First and Foremost, learn facts

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by: BruceDPrice
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Date: Thu, 21 October 2010 time: 16 H 10
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One of the great debates in public education, will all return to John Dewey, is just how the knowledge base should be taught.

It is a time where children had to memorize a vast amount of information. Undoubtedly, this trend has gone too for. But now we have moved to the extreme opposite to the point where the children know practically rien.Pas even the most basic and necessary facts are welcomed into their brains.Children reach College knowing not that 6 x 8.

I am writing on this subject from different angles, pointing out for example if children simply learned a tiny little done every day, it would be about 200 each year and the time they reach the sixth year, they knew more than the average student today.

Made teaching is no big deal. Problem is the implementation of education declared war on base.Il information is simply not taught, and I think that it is a crime against enfants.Notre brain is wired to the new information.

I recently was hit with a quote, I put on my site, several years ago: "facts are the spirit are the bones of the body."I do not think that I can improve on this.Without the facts, the spirit is must juste.Ecoles are transforming children jellyfishes and then feel proud.

One way I try to highlight scene several schools do poor work is to create easy tests, with questions as the clouds are made of what where is Japan, etc.These tests are a simple way to embarrass the children by carrying out very little they know.(I wish to hinder the establishment of education - but is it still possible?)

My easy most-recent test was only 10 questions and is part of an article entitled "Do American students Know Anything At all."

A pleasure to read;and in the end, there is a link to "20: Quiz," which has 100 easy questions.(Note also the article has three videos: the right is another test easy with 12 video questions.La left is fondamentale.Celui workplace knowledge explains why the brain wants new information.)

Also, I must say that I take some pride in created a new Latin proverb for this article: "no cogito ergo non sum."That I translate: "I think therefore I do not exist."The goal is to be an epithet for persons who do not know the facts.

CODA: I am now reading a book by e. d. Hirsch where he said: "" education researchers rarely interview reporters in the departments of Psychology u.s. ' they did, they would learn that the dominant scientific community gave little credence to many psychological presuppositions of the educational community, such as the assumption that children can be taught widespread skills of critical thinking and problem solving. ""No, because the spirit must first facts and then we learn how to do things with these facts.

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Bruce Price is an author, artist, poet and activist of education when 2005, he founded improve - Education .org.

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