13 Aug
2012
13 Aug
'12
2:41 a.m.
If I should be wrong regarding to the German education
system, I welcome
that, but I don't have any hope that I'm mistaken :(. I've seen to much
evil and I know too much people who confirm this.
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 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 if you think a state system, or a privately funded one, will end
up like Heinlein's idea ... well, I've got a bridge you might want to
buy.
It pisses me off that teachers think that arts in schools need to be
evaluated with exams ... but, honestly, I don't have a solution other
than not teaching arts in schools.
Nothing evil going on. Just people doing their jobs :)
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