Do you use discord? The link isn't particularly relevant to the post, but I realise it can be hard to communicate in a more personal level here on Steem. Many people use discord for that. There are also community groups on there that you may find of interest if you have specific interests. You're welcome to join us at the @HomeEdders community, but I realise as you aren't actually homeschooling at the moment, you may not find it relevant.
I have been thinking about education, and is the public school educational system in Australia as sanitized as it is here in The United States? The educational system has gone father down hill in recent years, and although I did attend public school, for me my formal education was only a base for me to build on. After public school, I attended a 4 year Christian college that was a private school and after that I have many, many years of self led education So I consider myself to be a fairly well rounded individual. My question to you is this 'how was the educational system in Australia formed?
I've never really studied the formation of the educational system here or in my birth country, England. It's hard to make a true comparison to the US, because I don't know their public school system personally, but I get the impression both Australia and the UK seem to be heading the same way as the US, just a few steps behind. A few years ago my daughter briefly attended high school and one of the changes they made while she was there was to make history (their history) a compulsory subject for much longer, meaning that it restricted student exam choices so that they couldn't study more of the relevant topics for the areas of interest they wanted to further. In other words, they made it harder for public school children to get into high level university courses.
I personally went to a Waldorf school, so I have very little experience in the public/state school system, only what I've heard from others and the little experience from when my daughters attended briefly.
What I can tell you is some of the history of education in the UK before it was taken over by government. The industrial revolution started the first education of the poor, with people like Arkwright, who wanted not just manual labourers in the mills, but workers with enough education to be able to take on the office work and organisation side of manufacturing. So he started teaching the workers' children maths and literature. It was very basic learning, really, just the things they needed to know in order to run the mills without his constant supervision. It benefited both him and the workers as he could then go on to build other mills employing more of the poor and creating the new class system incorporating the middle classes.
I know many teachers here in Australia want to teach children how to learn for themselves, but they're very restricted by government curriculum.
Just like in Australia, the educational system has a strangle hold on teachers. So the poor quality of education is not 100% the fault of the teachers, but I feel that a majority of the downfall lies in the way the educational system is designed. I recently wrote an article that was more in-debth concerning this topic. https://steemit.com/education/@captaintj/educational-reform-from-leftist-thought
A great link, thank you.
Do you use discord? The link isn't particularly relevant to the post, but I realise it can be hard to communicate in a more personal level here on Steem. Many people use discord for that. There are also community groups on there that you may find of interest if you have specific interests. You're welcome to join us at the @HomeEdders community, but I realise as you aren't actually homeschooling at the moment, you may not find it relevant.
I cant even say that I know what 'discord' is, how do I find out more about 'discord'?
https://discordapp.com/
I have been thinking about education, and is the public school educational system in Australia as sanitized as it is here in The United States? The educational system has gone father down hill in recent years, and although I did attend public school, for me my formal education was only a base for me to build on. After public school, I attended a 4 year Christian college that was a private school and after that I have many, many years of self led education So I consider myself to be a fairly well rounded individual. My question to you is this 'how was the educational system in Australia formed?
I think that you will be interested to learn about the educational system in the United States https://www.stgeorgeutah.com/news/archive/2012/03/14/our-prussian-model-of-public-schooling-controlling-the-masses/#.XmQ0IRtMHIU
I've never really studied the formation of the educational system here or in my birth country, England. It's hard to make a true comparison to the US, because I don't know their public school system personally, but I get the impression both Australia and the UK seem to be heading the same way as the US, just a few steps behind. A few years ago my daughter briefly attended high school and one of the changes they made while she was there was to make history (their history) a compulsory subject for much longer, meaning that it restricted student exam choices so that they couldn't study more of the relevant topics for the areas of interest they wanted to further. In other words, they made it harder for public school children to get into high level university courses.
I personally went to a Waldorf school, so I have very little experience in the public/state school system, only what I've heard from others and the little experience from when my daughters attended briefly.
What I can tell you is some of the history of education in the UK before it was taken over by government. The industrial revolution started the first education of the poor, with people like Arkwright, who wanted not just manual labourers in the mills, but workers with enough education to be able to take on the office work and organisation side of manufacturing. So he started teaching the workers' children maths and literature. It was very basic learning, really, just the things they needed to know in order to run the mills without his constant supervision. It benefited both him and the workers as he could then go on to build other mills employing more of the poor and creating the new class system incorporating the middle classes.
I know many teachers here in Australia want to teach children how to learn for themselves, but they're very restricted by government curriculum.
Just like in Australia, the educational system has a strangle hold on teachers. So the poor quality of education is not 100% the fault of the teachers, but I feel that a majority of the downfall lies in the way the educational system is designed. I recently wrote an article that was more in-debth concerning this topic. https://steemit.com/education/@captaintj/educational-reform-from-leftist-thought