When I was in school, I was a voracious reader, but I could never get through the assigned summer reading. I would read all kinds of books during the summer, but not what I was required to.
Peer pressure works. Or breaks a child. We don’t have like in other countries an instilled want to learn. It is just work that too many of them want to forget.And taking off for three months is a too long stretch. Research shows that after two months any knowledge learned begins to slip away. So either breaking up the months into shorter times so that schooling continues to better cover what they rush through. Love of history was not found in school where you speed through the text book just a plethora of names, dates and such but no real cohesion is found. Skipped over just to finish for the next step in the curriculum. Take that test, regurgitate the names, dates etc. then move on. But did you learn anything or just listlessly temporarily learned for the test and that alone?
I had to read on my own at my speed to discover I like history. Something I could not find in school, but then I didn’t much like the programmed nature of school which worked against me since that wasn’t the system. Autodidact that is my way.
x_Tech almost 7 years ago
Seize the book?
gammaguy almost 7 years ago
Read ’em, and carp.
Ignatz Premium Member almost 7 years ago
When I was in school, I was a voracious reader, but I could never get through the assigned summer reading. I would read all kinds of books during the summer, but not what I was required to.
whiteheron almost 7 years ago
That line is sort of along the lines of, " This is going to hurt me more than it does you." , isn’t it Mr. Burke?
Thomas Thieme almost 7 years ago
What is it with the looping at this school? Everyone always has the same teacher the next year.
Night-Gaunt49[Bozo is Boffo] almost 7 years ago
Peer pressure works. Or breaks a child. We don’t have like in other countries an instilled want to learn. It is just work that too many of them want to forget.And taking off for three months is a too long stretch. Research shows that after two months any knowledge learned begins to slip away. So either breaking up the months into shorter times so that schooling continues to better cover what they rush through. Love of history was not found in school where you speed through the text book just a plethora of names, dates and such but no real cohesion is found. Skipped over just to finish for the next step in the curriculum. Take that test, regurgitate the names, dates etc. then move on. But did you learn anything or just listlessly temporarily learned for the test and that alone?
I had to read on my own at my speed to discover I like history. Something I could not find in school, but then I didn’t much like the programmed nature of school which worked against me since that wasn’t the system. Autodidact that is my way.
Boise Ed Premium Member almost 7 years ago
Well put, N-G. History is much more interesting when it’s about the people, not just reduced to data.
Bysshe almost 6 years ago
The idea of being assigned homework over the summer would have shocked us to the bone. I never heard of it until I was an adult.