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Teaching Taxes in School? Most Students Will Still Be Asking AI ‘How to Avoid Work’
Sure, students need life skills, but do they care enough to stop texting long enough to learn them?
Whether students will ever use the Pythagorean theorem outside of a textbook is a question that has everyone in the classroom sitting with their heads down. Everyone goes through this, but what if the issue isn’t that we’re “lazy” or “unmotivated” but rather that we’re unable to make the crucial connection between what we’re taught and how it relates to our own lives?
The necessity of moving accountability from students to the system itself has come up in a number of online debates. Let’s examine why this is important and how we can truly make education effective.
You Think Grammar Doesn’t Matter? Good Luck Getting a Job
How often do we hear that jobs that require math or English abilities are “useless”? One of the pupils in my English class believed that he didn’t need to learn fundamental grammar because he wanted to work with computers.
His attitude didn’t change when I told him that if he couldn’t capitalize their name correctly, even a bank wouldn’t likely support his firm. In actuality, these…
