Blog Post 3: How to Teach
How to Teach: A brief overview of the schools of thought Today I learned that over 10 thousand years ago, children were mostly free to self educate themselves in subjects and topics of their choosing. It can be argued that this was perhaps a creative approach to learning, but perhaps not a very practical one. As civilisations grew around the potency of farm crops each season, children were a free resources recruited by their parents as free labour for their farming. This moved their focus away from educational pursuits, in favour of their ability to perform physical labour. As a result, only the wealthy few who had no need for this free resource could afford their children to be educated in skills they saw fit. This shift may have borne the first seeds of elitism in the educational field. Today, we find that this system has evolved into a society that values institutes with difficult entry requirements, high fees and the promise of a successful life for your kid. Since the 1970s, ...