Education

Glen48 said:

I was read about education and I don't know about ewe's but my worst 3 yr at skool were trying to pass grade 1 English.
I wonder how make could pass a school exam now how much we have been taught and how much forgotten, is an education worth the time and money.
The article I read suggest kids would be better of doing time in a business not as child labour but to get an idea how a shops/car yard etc runs the mechanics of the whole thing as well as some schooling.
To day we are lucky you can look up Youtube and build a house or change spark plug true we didn't know PC would be around 40 yrs ago but any one can get an grounding on any subject or solve any problem even how to work out pumpkin PI.

Most kids have learnt more by the time they are teen than any time inn history via the net/ TV /Youtube/ Movies/ DVD etc.

My own experience has been I have learnt more since leaving school and wonder if it was worth while doing time.

How may were trained in one field and now doing some thing completely different now.

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dutchie said:

Its true that you can learn a lot with life experiences other than attending school.
The internet is a fantastic resource for self education (I used it to teach myself trading, like most others I will assume).

However the two most important subjects of reading (and writing) and mathematics are the basis of any education. These subject skills need to be gained at school as most parents are unable to do educate their children and the internet does not adequately cover them (at present).

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• We encourage an active engagement with the world. That includes using public transport to explore Melbourne, playing in the school’s extensive gardens and 1100 acres of bush, riding bikes, climbing trees, going on many camps and trips.
• We’ll be direct, honest, thorough and responsible in communicating information to students about sex and relationships, appropriate to the students’ age and developmental stages.
• We encourage students to use toasters, stoves, blenders, microwaves, cutlery.
• According to our assessment of students’ maturity and abilities, we may teach them to use axes, log splitters, saws and other tools.
• Similarly, we may teach students how to light fires, and may expect them to start and maintain fires in fireplaces, and fuel stoves in classrooms.
• We comfort students who are upset, we hug, we’re tactile. We may play rambunctious roughhousing games like British Bulldog or Capture the Flag.
• During maintenance activities students may be up ladders, changing light globes, using hammers, vacuum cleaners and electrical tools.
• We assess children who want to come here, but previous academic success or failure is not a factor in that assessment. Destructive and/or self-destructive behaviour is a factor. We’re very pleased to see evidence of creative interests, selflessness and empathy in students who apply for places.
• We don’t provide written reports on students at the end of every term, semester or year. But we are always happy to supply such reports on request, or to meet with parents and children to discuss progress.
• We are very happy for parents to be involved in the day-to-day life of the school, in all kinds of rich, exciting and rewarding ways. However we are not happy with parents who want to impose their own agendas on the school, and we don’t tolerate parents who attempt to bully the school, teachers, or other students.

sptrawler said:

I hope there are some people, who care about our falling education standards.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-08...an-on-tests-for-children-under-eight/11405900

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sptrawler said:

Well it looks as though the penny has dropped regarding Universities, they actually may be going back to quality rather than quantity, you never know working from the top down might take education back to something useful rather than a child minding facility.

https://www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...oveted-university-status-20191015-p530sh.html

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