[tlb]

What a horrendous crime, to turn a fascinating subject into a boring curriculum to be forced on teachers and children.

I've received great intellectual satisfaction from various well-taught subjects. I would rather chop off a finger than lose them. So curriculum committees that make subjects boring are doing something worse than chopping off millions of children's fingers.

[Akronymus]

With any kind of history especially, its just rote memorization of facts and not the connections between those facts.I hated history in school because of that, but now I actually find it interesting to learn that x happened because of y that also led to z and such. Or just rote memorization of technical facts, like how many wires does a PATA cable have. Or why must kids memoroze how an ethernet frame is built up? Sure go over it in class and show it as a lesson in how to read how binary protocols are defined. Because either you forget it anyways because its not relevant to your job, or you can look it up and memorize it over time as you use it often enough.

I really wish that teaching of history will get better for current and future kids.

[lloeki]

> Children ask: 'why?' So we put them in school, which cures them of this instinct and conquers curiosity through boredom.

- Paul Valéry

[brainzap]

its a job, not a mission