Matt's Ruminations

Oh that’s just fucking great, now I have to relearn Earth Science.

….God dammit

I pledge allegiance to the……wait, WHAT!?

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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.

Brilliant point

(Source: The Huffington Post)