Smart Teachers in Stupid Schools
Smart Teachers in Stupid Schools
By Christine D’Amico, MA Elementary Ed August 25, 2011 Rant Rave
American education in the early 1900′s was designed to teach students academics: phonics, reading, writing, math, American history, world history, world geography, American geography, science, grammar, art, art history, literature, poetry, students were taught directly and systematically and they were assigned memorization and recitation of important documents. Students in the early 1900′s had a course load that was full and diverse. High school graduates during this time had a broad education which was well grounded in academics.
We are now down to basically teaching three subjects in school, reading, writing and math. The methods employed in the classroom are so inefficient that we have to spend lots of time on these
