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Zanthius
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I have added these puzzle/educational games:
And these to learn how to play musical instruments:
And added/modified several other things at http://www.archania.org/education/resources/
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« Last Edit: January 05, 2018, 07:19:10 pm by Zanthius »
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Zanthius
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I mean, you're working with theory, spinning out idea after idea… how much practical work have you done actually teaching children?
If people working with the education of children automatically acquired the best understanding about how to educate children, why was corporal punishment in schools so prevalent in the past? Corporal punishment is still practiced in many parts of the world today. If I lived in one of those places, I wouldn't have any right to criticize the teachers, because they have more experience with educating children than me?
Also. Not long ago, almost everybody believed in dominance-based training of dogs, and it was commonly believed that corporal punishment should be a vital part of dog training. This has completely changed during the last decades, but why didn't dog owners themselves realize that this wasn't necessarily the best way to train dogs?
It seems to me like most people are perfectly capable of working their entire lives with something, without realizing that they might be doing it in an inferior or sub-optimal way. I also think we are prone to a bias, which makes us think we are experts in something, just because we have a lot of practical experience.
Humans are also extremely prone to social conformity, and most teachers are likely to think that how everybody else is teaching is the right way to teach.
Seems like the Mycon take parenting and education much more seriously than humans:
The Deep Children!
Spears of light in the darkness!
Their discarded husks speak of joy to come.
I have chosen my offsprings' memories carefully from my set of remembrances
the sweet and warm times of my existence and those of my parents' parents' parents
the bits of a million lifetimes coalesced into a birth gift of complete awareness.
In the dark they grow, the deep fire feeds the Children.
Their birth breathes warmth across a cold world.
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It is much easier to be wrong than it is to be right. Showing that it certain old ways of being wrong persisted despite being common practice does not mean that it's not useful to actually check your theories. Especially since they weren't trying to be empirical.
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Zanthius
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Just wanted to say that several kids from poor countries have contacted me through feedback on my website, to ask me about how to get access to the educational facilities I have written about....
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