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Originally Posted by coberst
Therein lay the rub. How many good teachers are there and how many school systems provide the structure that allows a good teacher to be a good teacher?
In the US our educational system that teaches our teachers are perhaps the begining of the chain of error. But we must also include parents who themselves were never taught these things and thus do not appreciate the problem.
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HI Coberst, like you, I left school over forty years ago. Unlike you, I don't profess to know how children are taught today. As an outsider, I can form an opinion, and, in the UK, teaching seemed to go "off the rails" and too much emphasis was put on allowing children to express their creativity, and not enough on learning to count or spell. Thankfully, that trend seems to have reversed. But I get no impression that it has reverted to the rigid rote-learning regime that you seem to have experienced.
So on what basis do you suggest that modern teaching is overly rote-learning based?
Regards,
Terry
