Let's put it this way: people spend more than 10,000 of their lives talking and writing (including hours spent at school), and the majority can hardly put together a good sentense.
Heck, an awful lot cannot even distinguish between you're and your.
Heck, an awful lot cannot even distinguish between you're and your.
If you're inclined to argue because people probably do reach that amount of schooling, I'd observe that deliberative practice requires an extremely high degree of personalization, which the current school system is entirely incapable of providing in many subjects. Indeed, this is a very significant part of why I have so little respect for the current system; such huge, huge blocks of time given to it, where students are lucky to be operating at 20% of their learning capacity as they progress through their bulk learning exercises.... 10,000 hours of schooling may be a few hundred hours of deliberative practice, and that basically by luckily happening to match a particular exercise to exactly what that student needed to be deliberative at that point.
I'm one such specialist -- I teach math to groups of 4 fourth graders at a time, 45 minutes per group per day [0]. My students have averaged 1.6 years worth of growth this school year, and we still have 3 full months of school left. I'm not alone, either. In my poor inner city public school, there are 4 math fellows (so every fourth grader gets the same support), 5 reading interventionists, 2 special education specialists, a speech language pathologist, an occupational therapist, 4 or 5 enrichment teachers [1], and an after school program that includes tutoring and free dinner for families.
The system you have so little respect for isn't the "current system" where I'm at, it's a generation out of date. If this is important to you, come join us and bring your friends. Help us create and expand a learning environment that's personalized and differentiated based on student needs and abilities.
[0] http://www.teachindenver.com/teachindenver/how-to-apply/abou...
[1] "Arts & Culture, Career Exploration, Leadership, Pre-Collegiate, Recreation and Technology" - tied in with http://www.bgcmd.org/clubs/beacon-neighborhood-centers
That's actually part of my belief set; unstoppable change in this direction is coming down, and while there will be much wringing of hands, it is going to be good for students, and that's where my allegiance lies in the end. You sound like you're on the cutting edge; I see no evidence at this time that the school system I'm in works like this, but I am hopeful that will change before my children get very far in. Best of luck to your efforts; please lead the way.
The fact that your results appear to be so far ahead of the non-personalized system is confirming evidence for my beliefs, too. Can you imagine what the "average" student would look like if we can compound that advantage over the ~13 years of education, over multiple disciplines? I feel that within my lifetime we may very well come to see this era that we are just beginning to exit as a dark age of education.
If this wasn't a joke the irony is brilliant.
* sentence
*10,000 hours not 10,000 lives
Wasn't a joke. It sure does prove my point though [1]
>10,000 hours not 10,000 lives
Actually both hours and lives. I meant to write: "spend more than 10,000 hours of their lives" (or "life", if you wish).
[1] Well it doesn't, really, since I'm not a native speaker, so I haven't had those "10,000 hours" of honing my english. Plus, those are typos from hasty typing on a web textarea, not things I genuinely confuse.
Heck, an awful lot cannot even distinguish between you're and your.
I once wrote (coined? invented?) a law which says that one cannot point out errors of grammar or spelling in another's writing, without committing embarrassing errors of one's own.
It might be a case of "something gone wrong" (and in that sense covered by Murphy's law too), but that's overly generic, and he was going after something far more specific.
But I was not really talking against spelling or typos (that can happen to anyone), but more fundamental difficulties people have with syntax and especially with being coherent.
And even if I was, it would only help prove my point. It's a win-win mistake!