Wednesday, July 24, 2019
All the wrong classes performed
Something randomly reminded me of a song from Sound of Music. ... a flibbertigibbet, a will of the wisp, a CLOWN. Remembered that our high school chorus class had fun with that line.
Why did we have fun? Because the chorus class was constantly getting real-world experience. Whenever the school presented a play, the chorus class was the chorus and the orchestra class was the orchestra and the drama class was the actors.
Those three classes were always PERFORMING, and when they weren't performing they were rehearsing ON STAGE, under the pressure of getting READY to perform. Other classes were just sitting in the classroom watching the blackboard.
Biology class dissected a frog and an earthworm, which is physical, but it's not JOB-LIKE.
Math and English and History classes NEVER PERFORMED, never had to practice and organize and perfect a technique to use in the real world with real people watching.
Math was the worst of all. Math teachers never even talked about how math was used in physics or chemistry or cooking or car repair. The textbooks had a scattering of 'word problems', but we never turned those 'words' into real experiments.
Labels: Experiential education
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