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I advocate for a classical education from the age of 10-17. Philosophy, rhetoric, and poetry-then mathematics and science. The real problem is the curriculum for the flat earth public school classroom is laughably fatuous. Get rid of textbooks. They’re boring, expensive and unnecessary. This is why really bright people look at teaching as settling. Class sizes are also too large and teaching communities are too hermetically sealed by grade level. Students should be paired by academic ability not birthday. A publishing apparatus in K-12 would create a scholarship environment with an emphasis on peer review and excellence.
Teachers need the aspiration of-six figures. This will attract more dynamic men; I agree that education is over-populated by un-ambitious women who know more about social promotion than they do about theory and rigor. This is why merit has left K-12, now replaced by a useless cult of self-esteem.
Schools are too large and too coked up on sports to be academically serious. There should be a law that academics cannot be outspent by sports.
The arts and languages should not be ‘electives.’ You can’t understand the western tradition by reading about it; you have to participate in it.
Last but not least, parents need to have less say about pedagogy. It’s public school, home school, or private school. Those are the options. A student’s parents should sign a binding arbitration agreement to prevent them from suing the school over academic matters.
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Brilliant point
(Source: The Huffington Post)
