aneeshm
Deity
I've noticed that when discussing education systems, the focus is always on a system which works for everyone. The discussion is shaped by the goals of a public education system whose job it is to educate every citizen.
Though this is a worthwhile discussion in itself, it doesn't account for the tremendous personal variation in how people learn. The constraints which exist at this "universal" level often leave no scope for exploring the more individualised educational preferences of the participants in the discussion.
So, being curious, I'm opening this thread so that people may post their opinions of how their ideal system would work. Now when I say ideal system, I don't mean ideal for educating everyone, or anything like that, I mean ideal for you, the poster. What system would have been your dream to be a part of? In what sort of environment would you have thrived?
Radical changes and completely new educational structures are fine by me. Even if what you say couldn't work for 99% of people, but would work only for you and people like you, I'm fine with it - in fact, that's rather what I'm curious about. Even if what you say couldn't scale up, or, alternatively, could only work in very large groups (and therefore could not scale down), I have no objection.
If scale, structure, required resources, and in general feasibility were no bar, and the sole objective was educating you in the best possible way, what would your ideal look like? This doesn't mean that you can invent a Matrix-like teaching device which imparts knowledge directly to the brain, of course, or any other outlandish idea, it simply means that you can forget your worries about implementation for the moment.
NOTE: Because I have thought rather a lot about this in the past few months, my thinking may be in a bit of a rut. I don't want anyone to be influenced by the OP itself, so I'll defer posting about my own ideas until the thread has garnered a few responses.
Though this is a worthwhile discussion in itself, it doesn't account for the tremendous personal variation in how people learn. The constraints which exist at this "universal" level often leave no scope for exploring the more individualised educational preferences of the participants in the discussion.
So, being curious, I'm opening this thread so that people may post their opinions of how their ideal system would work. Now when I say ideal system, I don't mean ideal for educating everyone, or anything like that, I mean ideal for you, the poster. What system would have been your dream to be a part of? In what sort of environment would you have thrived?
Radical changes and completely new educational structures are fine by me. Even if what you say couldn't work for 99% of people, but would work only for you and people like you, I'm fine with it - in fact, that's rather what I'm curious about. Even if what you say couldn't scale up, or, alternatively, could only work in very large groups (and therefore could not scale down), I have no objection.
If scale, structure, required resources, and in general feasibility were no bar, and the sole objective was educating you in the best possible way, what would your ideal look like? This doesn't mean that you can invent a Matrix-like teaching device which imparts knowledge directly to the brain, of course, or any other outlandish idea, it simply means that you can forget your worries about implementation for the moment.
NOTE: Because I have thought rather a lot about this in the past few months, my thinking may be in a bit of a rut. I don't want anyone to be influenced by the OP itself, so I'll defer posting about my own ideas until the thread has garnered a few responses.
it was six months of french then six months of either german or spanish. After which choose one and study for the next four years. Other languages only really avalible as a sucker-punch A for those who already speak the language. The schools loving that a minimal expense will boost their percieved results.
