| Killing the joy of learning at primary school... 09:31 - Feb 21 with 681 views | BanksterDebtSlave |
https://www.theguardian.com/education/2021/feb/20/im-a-maths-lecturer-and-i-had-
"A bestselling novelist who teaches creative writing, Kelly says the English curriculum her seven-year-old is studying in lockdown is practically Dickensian in its pointlessness. “It’s not about the content of what they’re saying or its effectiveness. It’s about labelling every word in a sentence until the idea of language itself is just horrible to children.”
"But what he really finds frustrating is the lying. The curriculum is forcing teachers to deliberately teach children lies, he says, which then have to be unpicked later. For example, after years of being taught there are no numbers between zero and one, his seven-year-old is suddenly expected to understand that there are such things as fractions." |  |
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| Killing the joy of learning at primary school... on 11:09 - Feb 21 with 587 views | bluelagos |
Read that earlier.
Michael Gove pushed the learning of grammar ahead of creativeness from a young age. The implications are a far less enjoyable learning process.
Michael Rosen has been very vocal on the subject too. |  |
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| Killing the joy of learning at primary school... on 11:11 - Feb 21 with 577 views | BanksterDebtSlave |
| Killing the joy of learning at primary school... on 11:09 - Feb 21 by bluelagos |
Read that earlier.
Michael Gove pushed the learning of grammar ahead of creativeness from a young age. The implications are a far less enjoyable learning process.
Michael Rosen has been very vocal on the subject too. |
Michael 'sharing the pain' Gove! If it was good enough for him then..... | |
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| Killing the joy of learning at primary school... on 11:18 - Feb 21 with 564 views | bluelagos |
| Killing the joy of learning at primary school... on 11:11 - Feb 21 by BanksterDebtSlave |
Michael 'sharing the pain' Gove! If it was good enough for him then..... |
That's very much his view of education. He benefited from a "traditional" grammar style education and it served him well.
He doesn't seem to have the intellect, imagination or humility to recognise that education, like many things, has progressed in many ways in the past 40 years. Instead he looks misty eyed at what he experienced and simply believes that because it worked for him it must therefore be the best solution for all. | |
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| Killing the joy of learning at primary school... on 11:25 - Feb 21 with 548 views | BanksterDebtSlave |
| Killing the joy of learning at primary school... on 11:18 - Feb 21 by bluelagos |
That's very much his view of education. He benefited from a "traditional" grammar style education and it served him well.
He doesn't seem to have the intellect, imagination or humility to recognise that education, like many things, has progressed in many ways in the past 40 years. Instead he looks misty eyed at what he experienced and simply believes that because it worked for him it must therefore be the best solution for all. |
My Dad was an English teacher....occasionally at dinner he would read out a piece of writing from an often troubled, likely academically challenged child that you could see filled him with pride and hope despite spelling and punctuation. He would turn in his grave! | |
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| Killing the joy of learning at primary school... on 14:33 - Feb 21 with 488 views | Herbivore |
| Killing the joy of learning at primary school... on 11:18 - Feb 21 by bluelagos |
That's very much his view of education. He benefited from a "traditional" grammar style education and it served him well.
He doesn't seem to have the intellect, imagination or humility to recognise that education, like many things, has progressed in many ways in the past 40 years. Instead he looks misty eyed at what he experienced and simply believes that because it worked for him it must therefore be the best solution for all. |
There are other examples of this. Under his former brief he carried out reforms to speed up the process of adoption, usually for kids that have been removed from their parents by the courts. The main driving force was that Gove was adopted himself and he sees adoption as an inherently good thing. It's government by anecdote. |  |
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| Killing the joy of learning at primary school... on 14:50 - Feb 21 with 466 views | sohamblue74 |
Great Post bankster.
My parents were both teachers. They would hate the job under this current regime.
Gove is a despicable human being who was had enough of experts remember.
He also pushed this ridiculous 'free schools' agenda, which is a massive distraction from the work needed on improving established state schools.
Don't even get me started on Williamson aka Grayling mk2.
Lambert OUT! |  | | |
| Killing the joy of learning at primary school... on 14:54 - Feb 21 with 449 views | Plums |
| Killing the joy of learning at primary school... on 11:09 - Feb 21 by bluelagos |
Read that earlier.
Michael Gove pushed the learning of grammar ahead of creativeness from a young age. The implications are a far less enjoyable learning process.
Michael Rosen has been very vocal on the subject too. |
Kids don’t read books at school any more, they read bits of them. My daughter was studying Midsummer Night’s Dream and was stuck. When I asked for the book:
“The school doesn’t have them, we just get printed passages to work from.”
It’s insane. |  |
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