An article including Oric
- barnsey123
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Excellent Article
This shows EXACTLY what's wrong with UK Education - trying to fill kids minds with FACTS and set them loose at 16 expecting them to be productive members of society. They don't LEARN anything, they grow up expecting to be spoonfed the rest of their lives (a sweeping generalization I know, but it's mostly true).
There's LOADS of intelligent kids and many of them end up bored stiff at school (there's nothing for them to DO, it's all laid on). Couple this boredom with the teenage rebelious years and you get a recipe for disaster. What a waste!
All teachers (especially maths teachers) should read Polya's "How to Solve It". I picked a copy up recently whilst looking for ideas for my Viking Chess game. I was hoping that I could express certain game problems in a geometric way and let pythagoras do the rest (anything rather than layers of dull array traversal!)...It didn't work, but I learned LOADS and the book makes you think in different ways which has benefitted the game anyway - still unfinshed though (both the book and the game).
There's LOADS of intelligent kids and many of them end up bored stiff at school (there's nothing for them to DO, it's all laid on). Couple this boredom with the teenage rebelious years and you get a recipe for disaster. What a waste!
All teachers (especially maths teachers) should read Polya's "How to Solve It". I picked a copy up recently whilst looking for ideas for my Viking Chess game. I was hoping that I could express certain game problems in a geometric way and let pythagoras do the rest (anything rather than layers of dull array traversal!)...It didn't work, but I learned LOADS and the book makes you think in different ways which has benefitted the game anyway - still unfinshed though (both the book and the game).
Very nice article, very nice oric reference (I felt the same when I received mine, and also was hooked on forever) and very very true about the state of current education.
Of course in Spain is the same, if not even worse. One of the problems I face everyday is that students at the university simply can't think, because they were never trained to do it. And worse than that is they don't even try. They are used to be given recipies to solve problems and want nothing else.
What a waste of talent indeed!
Of course in Spain is the same, if not even worse. One of the problems I face everyday is that students at the university simply can't think, because they were never trained to do it. And worse than that is they don't even try. They are used to be given recipies to solve problems and want nothing else.
What a waste of talent indeed!