13 Aug
2012
13 Aug
'12
11:44 a.m.
Seems to me the problem with Germany and the rest of
the world is that
education is a "system". By the definition of "system" it has be
standardized, controlled, measured, etc. And that's probably the whole
problem :)
I would say the system is working quite well in Western Europe. The
rate of literacy is higher than
it ever was before. Most 12 year olds do math on what would be
considered university level 500
years earlier.
I think it was Robert Heinlein who said in a number of
his books that
education was 2 people (one a teacher, the other a student) sitting on
a log exchanging information. (Complete paraphrase, I don't have time
to look it up properly.)
And Heinlein's idea is just crazy...it's hard enough to find teachers
as it is and to find the money to
pay for them -- or will just any idiot with a log do?
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