I got a pretty good literary analysis education, but in high school, I had it made very clear to me that A) my analysis of a work better be the same as my teachers' and B) we were going to read a whole bunch of works that I hated, and my well reasoned, articulate responses to why I though they stunk were just an example of how I "didn't appreciate great literature." Fandom taught me that I could apply those literary criticism tools to something other than Lord of the Flies and that there was no one right way to look at something.
What kills me is that in the US we know how to teach. We have fantastic schools... for the rich. So we don't need to look at the school systems of other nations to figure out how to fix our broken system (though getting ideas and incorporating them is of course fine, I'm not arguing for some sort of pure American schools thing) we need to fix our education inequality. If we do that, those precious test scores will go sky high, and more importantly, more of the kids in this country will actually have a good education. Unfortunately, that would cost a lot of money, and make education a federal instead of local operating concern. And also, we can't really educate our poor kids. Why, they might become doctors, and scientists and lawyers and be better at it than our little Johny and Suzy.
In another universe, Book 1 is the Ember Island Players version of Korra.
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Date: 2013-12-15 05:01 pm (UTC)What kills me is that in the US we know how to teach. We have fantastic schools... for the rich. So we don't need to look at the school systems of other nations to figure out how to fix our broken system (though getting ideas and incorporating them is of course fine, I'm not arguing for some sort of pure American schools thing) we need to fix our education inequality. If we do that, those precious test scores will go sky high, and more importantly, more of the kids in this country will actually have a good education. Unfortunately, that would cost a lot of money, and make education a federal instead of local operating concern. And also, we can't really educate our poor kids. Why, they might become doctors, and scientists and lawyers and be better at it than our little Johny and Suzy.
In another universe, Book 1 is the Ember Island Players version of Korra.