lol i think this thing is jessiwan

People like you and I who often self-teach, autodidacts, are a small minority. Most people require a teacher or a guide in order to arrive at the correct understandings within any given discipline.

I've self-taught alot of things, my prime achievement in this realm being bodybuilding, anatomy and the like. But there are also things I didn't self-teach that I required a great teacher to arrive at the correct understandings, namely chemistry. I had one professor who made everything make sense to me - after that everything was basically fluff and I could self-teach most concepts.

Teachers or guides are ubiquitous and necessary throughout human culture. Ancient cultures all had them - they were usually entwined within the clergy or religious social order, as they are within Christianity. The great Saints and missionaries that pioneered the bedrock of our civilization were all teachers.

You're not wrong though about alot of teachers simply not caring or being bad teachers, just reading out of the textbook like anyone can do without actually teaching.

This post was edited by El1te on Jan 14 2025 01:12pm

When did we, as a society, go from kids getting their asses whooped if they brought home bad grades, to parents wanting to whoop the teachers' ass if their spawn doesn't get the good grades he/she is "entitled" to?

i need to feed my family dammit

That hits pretty much everyone, viscerally, if they take the time to remember it. Yes, we all were pupils. However, mastery does indeed require a guide. And "teachers" as you find in K-12 and even commonly in any form of undergrad and, sadly, in some post-grad fields, are just book repeaters. They don't know, they don't care. They have to give a lesson to get paid. You need to fill in expected shit to get a grade. Understanding and application are irrelevant.

I agree about those type of teachers, and I believe that we need an entire reformation of the teaching regime.

Alot of people think teachers are a silver bullet to education - "if only we had good teachers and we paid them enough, we'd have good education" - this simply isn't true. Education is a two way street - the pupil must be actively engaged in learning to actually learn. The problem we have now is we plop 30 kids into a classroom and tell them to sit down and shut up while they don't listen to their "teacher" who also doesn't care and just reads a curriculum getting paid their minimum wage. There must first be a bedrock of culture where children value and seek education. Many families have this culture with children who enjoyed learning but many more now don't.

Coincide with mass immigration. Time to put DEI in place to teach the waves of corporate slaves entering our countries. In Canada, they want more brown teachers, cops and social workers. We're giving them Canada on a silver platter because most Canadians suffer from a lack of masculinity/testosterone. No men left to fight a crooked system replacing them with Brown people.

something teachers and parents are horrible about is every kid should be a straight A student. sets everyone including the kid up for disappointment. straight A's are not going to get kids through in life. especially in this day and age of technology giving so much access to information. its about skills not knowledge