Boredom is educational
Boring lessons prepare children for real life, say British teachers. The Independent reports:
Pupils needed to get used to the idea that life wasn't a constant "Disney ride", said delegates at the Association of Teachers and Lecturers annual conference yesterday. "I don't have the energy to do all-singing all-dancing lessons every day, five-days-a-week, each term," supply maths teacher Zoe Fail explained, to loud cheers. "Children are not bored enough. They are over stimulated. Being bored encourages thinking skills and imaginative play."I suspect Barry Williams, a lecturer at Hertford Regional College in Cambridgeshire, had his tongue in his cheek, when he defended his dullness:"When they say to me: 'Mr Williams, that girl is looking out of the window staring at a tree,' I say: 'Do they not recognise the advanced stages of Zen Buddhism which I have brought into my lessons?' I am in fact producing adults who will be able to watch party political broadcasts."Nobody gets through school without learning how to endure boredom.
I definitely agree that life isn't a Disney ride--and neither should school be. That's a statement, not an excuse.
And why do the British study "maths" while we in America study "math"? If they're shortening "mathematics", shouldn't they write "math's"?
2 comments:
Because the apostrophe shows posession. The English do not own math. :)
But it's still a contraction.
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