Thomas Sowell On The Truth Behind School Success
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I went to the highschool that was failing until the current principal came. I didn't know how bad the conditions were just a few years before I enrolled. By that time everything was taken seriously. If I was bullied there, I know the bullies would face consequences, unlike my bullies did in my elementary school. The rules were strict, but reasonable. No wasting time with dress code, unlike so many other schools. We just knew that we were to walk on the right side of the hallways, be quiet during the class and not to play in the labs. Our results were quite good. Most of us went to college. And also, the principal behind the school's success had problems with the higher-ups who wanted to replace him with someone more inclined with the vision the minister of education had. Year after I graduated, the highschool was proclaimed to be the best one in the country. I wonder why.
Absolutely true. I taught Physics ,. I had one year, not the lifetimes of Galileo, Newton and Faraday. I taught hard until the last four weeks and did the group discovery stuff after the students had some background to draw from.
I would rather have my kids learn through. Interactive software which is unbiased politically and very rigorous and Stem based. Everyone knows a great teacher, but on average they are pretty mediocre in the U.S. why should everyone take exactly 12 years to earn a high school diploma? Software would give everyone the same high quality exposure to education. Of course, everyone will not have the same outcome due to, varying intelligence, work effort, etc.
Do you know about the Basic School, also called Benjamin Franklin School, in Mesa Arizona. In the early 1980's it became a Charter School before anyone had coined the label, Charter School.
Vote out all libtard politicians
It seems that the solution for public schools in the US is to teach children without paying attention to government programs created by amateurs.
Excellent. I wish we could abolish the Department of Education.
BRAVO! ..to you Mr. Sowell, and Patreon, and every successful and CARING educator cited. What a wonderful, Parent & Educator enlightening and inspiring essay.
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Oh how I long for old fashioned teaching and discipline. My son would benefit greatly. But these teachers are really really bad and cannot even be bothered to give memos to student that are grammatically correct. Setting an example is no longer important in education and yes a lot of talk and theory but it is me who is ftrying to fill huge gaps in his education. And these teachers are fragile and get upset when, once in a while, I email them how I see these things. But then they will say that my tone is not good. I am like my tone? It is about the substance in my email and you obviously do no want to get into that. My education was better, and I got mine in an ex colony country where schools had no big funds no fancy buildings etc. But they actually taught. My sona generation later in a rich EU country gets a great school building, plenty of impressive material stuff. Just no real education. Sowell should have been a global dictator.
The question that doesn't seem to be answered – were the results of schools within the lower 3rd percentile actually failing, or was that the intention?
One more argument (if any are needed) AGAINST compulsory attendance laws (a captive audience) and tax funding (separating funding from results). Separating school and state, anybody?
In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards. – Mark Twain
The teachers who used the "conventional" methods – failed.
The teachers who succeeded – used unconventional methods.
And the people upstairs – condemned the successful teachers for using unconventional methods.
Gee, I thought racism was the reason for everything… imagine how crestfallen I am to see this video….
i kinda wish there were teachers and principles like in some of the examples you put forth were in my schools in the 90's to the early 00's
Political Correctness = Anti-White Hate
We can't let the peons get ahead. It will put us out of business. (We can only hope!)
Very few true educators and teachers-at-heart run public schools and education departments. Sadly, most public schools, in the U.S. and in Latin America (the regions I'm familiar with), are run by bureaucrats, union leaders, and intellectual weirdos with their own personal agendas. These people have little or no skin in the game, beyond securing their jobs and controlling the resources that flow through the educational system. Lots of these bureaucrats send their own children to private or charter schools; they don't dare to feed their own offspring with the garbage they feed the kids of others.
Just as we have moved to “evidence based” approach to research in and practice of medicine—we should take the same stringent approach to education. This means not relying on dogma of intellectuals/thinkers in the leadership positions of school districts but should be focused on identifying whatever methods being used in successful school are being used and adapting them—and then studying the results and judging them by student performance. It has to be outcome based and driven by hard data.
Nothing like a dogmatic "expert" to insist the masses follow their theories exactly with no regard to what the results prove.
The falacy of top down direction.
The French Quebecois government always tries to keep the poor English children down and claim to have a right to this because it helps to preserve the Quebecois culture. Long story short, both French and English people in general are suffering, as a result, to this day.
This hits too close to home. I'm a public school teacher teaching math. Our curriculum and all the supplied learning materials are designed by very smart individuals only for the very smart learners. The ideals of our educational system is far too detached from what is actually happening in the ground. So I embraced reality, went back to basics, had relatively great results, but got condemned incompetent because the way I did it is seen as old-fashioned traditional teaching.
Willfully sabotaging education is massive child abuse and must be punished by no lesss than life in prison if you have any respect for children. I'll go as far as saying fear of punishing these abusers is satanic.