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The Bat Gentleman vs The Thing from Below.

A Twitter Thread from David Bowles:

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I'll let you in on a secret. I have a doctorate in education, but the field’s basically just a 100 years old. We don’t really know what we’re doing. Our scholarly understanding of how learning happens is like astronomy 2000 years ago.

Most classroom practice is astrology.

Before the late 19th century, no human society had ever attempted to formally educate the entire populace. It was either aristocracy, meritocracy, or a blend. And always male.

We’re still smack-dab in the middle of the largest experiment on children ever done.

Most teachers perpetuate the “banking” model (Freire) used on them by their teachers, who likewise inherited it from theirs, etc.

Thus the elite “Lyceum” style of instruction continues even though it’s ineffectual with most kids.

What’s worse, the key strategies we’ve discovered, driven by cognitive science & child psychology, are quite regularly dismissed by pencil-pushing, test-driven administrators. Much like Trump ignores science, the majority of principals & superintendents I’ve known flout research.

Some definitions:

Banking model --> kids are like piggy banks: empty till you fill them with knowledge that you're the expert in.

Lyceum --> originally Aristotle's school, where the sons of land-owning citizens learned through lectures and research.

Things we (scholars) DO know:

-Homework doesn't really help, especially younger kids.

-Students don't learn a thing from testing. Most teachers don't either (it's supposed to help them tweak instruction, but that rarely happens).

-Spending too much time on weak subjects HURTS.

Do you want kids to learn? Here's something we've discovered: kids learn things that matter to them, either because the knowledge and skills are "cool," or because .... they give the kids tools to liberate themselves and their communities.

Maintaining the status quo? Nope.

Kids are acutely aware of injustice and by nature rebellious against the systems of authority that keep autonomy away from them.

If you're perpetuating those systems, teachers, you've already freaking lost.

They won't be learning much from you. Except what not to become. Sure, you can wear them down. That's what happened to most of you, isn't it? You saw the hideous flaw in the world and wanted to heal it. But year after numbing year, they made you learn their dogma by rote.

And now many of you are breaking the souls of children, too.

For what?

It's all smoke and mirrors. All the carefully crafted objectives, units and exams.

WE. DON'T. KNOW. HOW. PEOPLE. LEARN.

We barely understand the physical mechanisms behind MEMORY. But we DO know kids aren't empty piggy banks. They are BRIMMING with thought.

The last and most disgusting reality? The thing I hear in classroom after freaking classroom?

Education is all about capitalism.

"You need to learn these skills to get a good job." To be a good laborer. To help the wealthy generate more wealth, while you get scraps.

THAT is why modern education is a failure.

Its basic premise is monstrous.

"Why should I learn to read, Dr. Bowles?"

Because reading is magical. It makes life worth living. And being able to read, you can decode the strategies of your oppressors & stop them w/ their own words.

a redemption poll from that last dog name one i did:

reblog for a larger sample <3

For whoever needs it. I’m good atm

so I got into grad school today with my shitty 2.8 gpa and the moral of the story is reblog those good luck posts for the love of god

There have been several theories put forward as to why there is such a high concentration of strange disappearances in the Appalachian mountains.

Those theories include ones born of extreme classism such as wild men, cannibals or cults. The more esoteric ones are tolerable, theories such as Sasquatch activity, alien abduction, Not Deer related activity or strange cosmic shifts in time and space.

As an Appalachian person, I personally think it’s because the caves are eating people.

Now hear me out, that sounds wild but really stop and think about it. When no one is around, who is to say that caves don’t come alive and start sucking people in? Think about how many sets of remains with archeological significance have been found in caves worldwide? You could say that it’s because evolutionarily modern humans and our ancestors occupied caves for hundreds of thousands of years. You could say it’s because they’re perfect dark tombs to bury our dead in or to crawl in when your injured and need shelter. Or you could say the caves eat people and have been doing that since the beginning of time. That’s what I choose to believe and that’s why I don’t go near them. Artificial caverns like mines are more mouths for the earth to feed with and that’s why I don’t go near them either. I’m imploring you to watch your back whenever you’re near a known cave and don’t venture into limestone cave country alone.

We put steel bars over the mouths of caves here in western Virginia, you may be tempted to believe this is to keep people from vandalizing the inside, disturbing endangered bat species or wandering in and getting lost. That’s not true. I know it is a muzzle for the cave. One of those Hannibal Lecter face cages to keep it from eating you. Watch out. I’m warning you. They’re lying to you.

I need to replay Borderlands

I love this

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