Faye Coker wrote:
(not replying to anyone specifically in this discussion, hence stripping out quotes. This is a summary of my experience/what I've been exposed to).
There's a big problem in schools (particularly primary) where incredibly smart children (more so twice exceptional children) are seen as low achievers because of a learning difficulty,
Perhaps beyond the problems of 1/ the 'durability' of tertiary education as vocational training and 2/ the failure of modern primary and secondary education for really bright children, we should consider more general problems of modern education. For example given the lengthening and transient nature of, modern urban lives,' life as learning' would seem a practical necessity, not just a romantic ideal.Yet one wonders if 'real interest' were measured as, 'beyond academic achievement and /or consequent vocational result', how much 'real interest' would be found in a survey across all subjects in , modern tertiary education. Anecdotally and depressingly I would venture less than 20%.! In fact I suspect that not only does modern education (primary, secondary and tertiary); fail to inspire an interest in learning in a majority of students; but it actually destroys , what little curiosity, they may have originally had; regards Rohan McLeod