Sunday, August 30, 2020
Meta-experiential
Just one random thought for today, before I get back to some heavy courseware work.
Why do teachers want to factor their own occupation out of existence? I've asked this before, with no good answer.
Partial answer: Experience is the only real teacher. When you are steadily experiencing a job or school or ordinary life, you know what it's like. You know that you're not getting sick and dying, and you know which pieces of the situation are good and bad.
When you're out of the situation, you have to rely on theories and abstractions and feelings. The longer you stay out, the more you rely on abstractions and media myths and phobias.
US teachers (with a few notable exceptions) are totally abstract. They don't use experience in their teaching, and they don't understand that experience is the only real teacher.
Because they don't understand the entire concept, they don't realize that they are giving parents and students a SOLID EXPERIENTIAL LESSON. Middle-class parents who hadn't experienced home-schooling before are now familiar with it. They know they can do it, and they realize that they can get along BETTER without the holocaustal monstrosity of Murder Masks and Chinese Distancing and Lucite Security Theater.
Unfortunately this DOESN'T apply to the poor families who can't possibly manage home schooling. Those students NEED public school, and they're not getting it.
Labels: Asked and partly answered, Experiential education, meta-experiential education
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