The Glade 4.0

From one of the more frequently used children's elementary school text-books, Building Fluency Through Practice and Performance



The method of instruction is to have the children sing, and chant their lessons. Thoughts?

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Ezekiel 23:19-20 

Singing as a mnemonic device is nothing new. I would imagine most of us learned the Roman alphabet through such a device. If you disagree with the content, see your local school board.

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I prefer to think of them as "Fighting evil in another dimension"

Some of it is propaganda. Some of it is the Constitution. Some of it is wishful thinking. Rori is correct, this is a long established teaching technique, going back centuries at least.

All of it is standard feed their minds with the parts we want them to think are real. Maybe if we give them the lib agenda early they will believe it all of their lives. Treat it like the multiplication tables so they absorb it and can recite it without thinking too hard about it. By giving it to them sing song it becomes real to them, until someone sometime down the road teaches them to think for themselves. Conversely, some of them will start to question it when they start realizing that a lot of what they learned is nonsense.

I remember one year being told we couldn't do fractions, then the next year being taught them. What that taught me was that it is easier to lie to the kids until they have the lesson you're teaching down, then let next year's teacher deal with the misinformation you gave them to keep them from wandering far afield.

My previous year's teacher didn't like it when I accused her of lying to me, out loud, in front of the entire recess yard. They still allowed corporal punishment back then. I stuck to my guns though, she had lied to me, answered a direct question with a lie. We could divide numbers that gave non-whole results. The vice-principal was having a hard time not laughing at my indignation while they tried to make me understand respect for authority. It seemed so important to me at the time. My parents also had a hard time not laughing when I got home and told them about it.

Now, how much of "Conjunction Junction" and "I'm only a Bill" do you remember?

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The U. S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself. B. Franklin

"A mind needs books like a sword needs a whetstone." -- Tyrion Lannister, A Game of Thrones

Obviously the method of instruction is time tested.

Also, you should note that I didn't provide any editorialization, Rori.

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Ezekiel 23:19-20 

So I did. You asked me what I thought and I told you. School districts should be locally autonomous.

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I prefer to think of them as "Fighting evil in another dimension"

Should be, but do you feel that's how it actually works?

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Ezekiel 23:19-20 

Sadly, No. I still think if you are unhappy with your public education, the way to fix it is from the bottom up where your vote matters more than the top down. You can vote for local school board members that are willing to buck the standards imposed by the state and above.

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I prefer to think of them as "Fighting evil in another dimension"

That's why having Federal control of such things makes it so much more difficult to enact change. Local control has been advocated by many on this board, including Rynar, for quite some time.

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"Dress cops up as soldiers, give them military equipment, train them in military tactics, tell them they’re fighting a ‘war,’ and the consequences are predictable." —Radley Balko

Oh sure, first comes local control. Then BAM, slavery is back! Honestly, I think that is what most people expect/think anyway, judging by who they put in office. (Republicrats)

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"...the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?" -Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Have you seen the people we put in office this year? (Mike Dewine not withstanding)

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I prefer to think of them as "Fighting evil in another dimension"

More republicrats? I get tired of paying any attention sometimes.

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"...the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?" -Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

How do countries with the best educations handle it? Do they mainly localize education, or standardize it nation-wide? I don't know, but just wondering.

They handle it by having better math and science scores. This thread is more about the rhetoric in this particular book.

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"...the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?" -Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

I'm against it. Memorization != learning. We suck *** at math and I think it's partly because we teach it as a memorization technique (times tables).

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I think times tables are actually useful to memorize. Everything else in math isn't.

We aren't as bad as everyone thinks. We are just the only nation that tests all their students. Japan only tests like the top five to ten percent since that's about all they send to high school.

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I prefer to think of them as "Fighting evil in another dimension"

They don't even do that anymore. Have you seen the "New Math" as we call it? I teach history, so i really spend little time in the math teachers' room, but multiplication is done a seriously different way now.

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"None is more important, none more legitimate, than that of rendering the people safe as they are the
ultimate guardians of their own liberty."- Thomas Jefferson

"Yeah, I'm rehearsing my poker face. I don't handle stupid well. *sigh*" - Farsky

Can't see Video. Blocked at school.

Anyway, I hope it shows something ridiculous about how Math is taught today.

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"None is more important, none more legitimate, than that of rendering the people safe as they are the
ultimate guardians of their own liberty."- Thomas Jefferson

"Yeah, I'm rehearsing my poker face. I don't handle stupid well. *sigh*" - Farsky

It is. Watch when you get home. Much <3 for Tom Lehrer.

Lots of things need to be memorized, provided you are taught what it means, and its importance. Sometimes there is no way around it.

All of my searching for anything regarding "new math" is referring to a change in the 60's. Can you elaborate?

Except that there are some things that just need to be memorized...

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"...the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?" -Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Such as?

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Taxonomy. Names. Colors. What letter each symbol refers to, and the sound it makes. What each numeric symbol means. Dialogue in The Princess Bride.