We might not need teachers, even. We all know, if we think about it for a second, that we essentially teach ourselves. When we make progress in learning it is because we do the work internally.
Teachers don’t teach us. They may appear to do so because they can answer questions, they can make stuff available and so on…. they can assist us to learn.
But if you don’t want to learn you won’t. And that, lamentably, is what often happens to teachers – they get kids that simply don’t want to learn.
But they teach in an environment that thinks, that acts as though, teachers are what makes education happen.
Teachers and uniforms.
Increase the workload on the teachers, train the teachers better, reward the teachers adequately, dress all the children in identical uniforms: everything will be right. That’s the paradigm.
Ludicrous in the extreme. A cretinous approach. Betraying a total lack of any kind of understanding and demonstrating that some people, some where, need to be expelled from their positions, be they politicians, bureaucrats, educators or whatever.
And who is going to do that? Again, as always, it boils down to us, the people. We need to wake up and take up the reins that our rightfully ours to hold.
Here’s some interesting thoughts: Teacherless Education.