Wednesday, October 20, 2010

Technically speaking, I'm going to say this is stupid.

Seems like every school should be a Massachusetts technical school.  I mean isn't everything supposed to be technical in some degree?  And in Mass?  I suppose I'm just arguing semantics at this point but whatever. 

I went to a normal school and sometimes I think, “Did I learn anything?”  Because when you do technical training, there is defined and clear cut application.  Which I like.  My program, not quite as much so.  A bit less.  I don't really like that.  I feel like everything should be taught with it's real-life application.  Is that not practical?  I think it is. 

Sometimes I feel like the problem with education is that we teach people and we teach them by showing them what we've learned which I feel like inhibits the other's ability to learn it themselves.  That's what I always hated about math, it was like;

Here is a problem.  Here is the solution. 

It was like, “HEY!  GIVE ME A SECOND TO FIGURE IT OUT MYSELF!”

I always hated that.  If you want me to learn, why are you telling me the answers?  I understand like in English, this word means this and the such, but in math?  In MATH?  In math I think that's a terrible approach.  You've given me the principles, now let me apply them.  But maybe that's just me.

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