Once you think about it, it will be obvious that school subjects are not English, history, chemistry, biology, and so forth.
School subjects
memorizing
reading textbooks
taking classes
doing assignments
taking tests
handling stress
Right? Of course. When you go to school, you spend your time on those things. They make up the structure of schooling – not of education. They are what is learned or not learned. But if you get good at them, you can actually enjoy your schooling. You can even have time for your education. Academic subjects are inherently fascinating, but to get time to get at them, to get “an intense vision of the facts” as William Carlos Williams might put it, you need to dispatch these hidden school subjects first.
THE PASSIVE CLASSROOM
True or False: A classroom is where everything isn’t.
Even though research shows lecturing to be one of the least effective teaching methods, more classes than not are still conducted with students seated passively in rows and the teacher in front doing all the talking. Lecturing is so ingrained I’ve actually seen a teacher droning on at four silent and polite students seated in front of him. Another arranged the seats in a circle but lectured all the same.
Most college teachers don’t know much about what works and what doesn’t, even though common sense, much less the research, is right in front of them – if they ever bothered to look. Have a degree in physics? OK, here’s your podium, never mind that you’re boring the kids to death. The old, counter-productive methods persist. Fear —”You’ll be tested on this”—is still used to motivate students, even though a warm and friendly atmosphere is known to result in better learning – with fewer neuroses. Classrooms still try to transmit information even though there’s Google out there,for god’s sake, even though kids are falling asleep (if they bother to show up at all). Antiquated, ignorant practices actually dull the mind. What most students learn in boring classes is how to be passive, and of course, passive mental habits lead to C’s or worse for the majority of students. How often have you looked forward to your classes? How often have all your senses, how often has your fully functioning mind, been engaged?
Get this: there’s good research that shows 95 per cent of these same students can succeed in other settings.
And, how about this: Even in crumby classes, five per cent do succeed. They are not necessarily smarter. And they often work and worry far less than C students.
A classroom is where everything isn’t. — Karl Staubach
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