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Schooling Australia II: the 21st century learning furphy : Comments
By Fiona Mueller and Deidre Clary, published 28/9/2018Is it educational heresy to question if the '21st century model' is likely to be successful? What if the proverbial baby be tossed out with the bathwater?
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As alleged teachers with" Blacksmith's" grades were given carte blanche entry into, for profit, ed courses?
Thus we have numerically illiterate teachers, teaching maths and other who would fail any half-way decent spelling bee teaching our kids English. And don't even understand the proper use of a semicolon in essays or literature; as just one example of how far we travelled backwards in our earnest search to be among the finest failed education systems in a rapidly changing world.
And as the resident knumbskulls wax lyrical about the arts and arts degrees for a world where most of the incomes will go increasing to those proficient in all the STEM subjects.
Which could be improved with the inclusion of abandoned phonetics, music and mindfulness.
Other than that, I tire of this constant push to include special ed in normal classrooms to help (allegedly) the self-esteem of that cohort, while completely ignoring just how well it prevents the full development of our best and brightest and traps them, as daydreamers, in the common herd.
Time for a return to basics and removing the dross from the unionised system. As many teachers could and should be replaced by computer programs and home learning. As a superior solution to paying top rates for the worst cohort of teachers, this country has produced for decades.
Religious freedom should be left to the churches and eliminated from schools where the incontrovertible evidence tells us, this does more harm than good and suppresses or completely blocks essential as never before, critical independent thinking.
Alan B.