The Problems with College Students May Start in High School
Most teachers have been imbued with “progressive” educational theories that downplay working to master the material.
National Review reports.
Are High School Teachers Part of the College Problem?
One reason why so many students enter college with poor skills and motivation, I have long maintained, is that their teachers in high school (and earlier) don’t challenge them. Most teachers have been imbued with “progressive” educational theories that downplay working to master the material.
A nice piece of supporting evidence recently came to me. Mathematician Barry Garelick (who has written for the Pope Center) penned a piece entitled “My Day at Ed Camp.”
It is an eye-opener. His day at the camp put him in the midst of younger teachers, among whom the notion that “traditional teaching is outmoded and ineffective” is prevalent. Particularly revealing is a statement by one teacher who doesn’t believe in homework.”Show me the evidence that homework in high school prepares them for college.”
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Oh, it starts way before high school. It starts as soon as the the child enters the indoctrination center and sees the “working” adults in that environment. The child will see that it doesn’t matter how hard someone works, one gets paid. To get more bennies or a pay raise, get the union to demand it rather than to earn it. No matter how incompetent, lazy or inefficient, the teachers can’t be fired. One doesn’t rise or fall on the merits of the work. No child is to feel bad. Competition is bad. Grading has become an exercise in silliness. So what has that child learned from being with those ed majors? Nothing about how the real works.