I’ve had about 23 years of schooling. About halfway through, I started wondering about what I was being taught: Why these topics and not something else? I quickly started to suspect that the curriculum served up to us was pretty random – that there was no good reason for studying these things and that we were just blindly going along with traditions that no one ever thought through.
What Should Students Learn?, Part 1
What Should Students Learn?, Part 1
What Should Students Learn?, Part 1
I’ve had about 23 years of schooling. About halfway through, I started wondering about what I was being taught: Why these topics and not something else? I quickly started to suspect that the curriculum served up to us was pretty random – that there was no good reason for studying these things and that we were just blindly going along with traditions that no one ever thought through.