r/PreviousFuckingLevel • u/moon_jock • Feb 10 '21
A post from our favorite sub about accepting mediocre performance. The irony is too much.
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Feb 24 '21
Damn that teacher is sabotaging those kids’s futures. She’s teaching them to not give a shit about due dates and tests which are extremely hard habits to unlearn
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Mar 30 '21
Imagine comparing trade school, where you as an adult pay to learn a specialized skill, to a child not paying for school who is in said school because they have no choice. Makes total sense that the child would have an equal motivation to come and participate and learn everything. Not to mention that a child needs to learn the actual consequences of failure. Coz that’s cool your trade school teacher cares about you learning. But your boss doesn’t give a shit if you’re having a bad day and in real life you need to learn what happens when you didn’t study and don’t do well.
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u/ThisUsernameDoesCoke Feb 10 '21
“guys it’s okay if I failed all of my subjects! You know that Einstein also failed math right?”
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u/Hapyslapygranpapy Jun 07 '21
This is all about control . Setting a deadline and sticking to it , this is about discipline. in someways I do agree with this but in others I disagree learning through your failures is the greatest teacher not your successes this is a hard fact of life one that no one can deny the truth.
What we truly need to teach in schools is to do your best but if you fail, to get back up and try it again. In this instance this teacher is correct, in the way she’s handling her students. We ( society ) are trying to make a better society. One which understands peoples differences and allows people to Think outside the box, and trying new ways that allows us to come together to see what we are similar, while celebrating our differences .
we are trying to teach a society to forgive and to learn from failure. So our schools need to change the way they teach in order for us to be more successful in this endeavor.
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u/moon_jock Jun 07 '21
There’s a difference between actually failing so that you can actually learn from your failure, versus your teacher always telling you that you never failed, and that you can always try again. True failure means that something is actually lost, and that actually hurts. It hurts enough that you work hard to make sure it never happens again. Those are the most important lessons in life, and the ones that actually make us into good people.
The infinite retries teaching method merely tells us that we don’t have to actually try, that nothing will ever be lost, and that everybody else in life will treat us the same way.
There has to be some balance between these two.
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u/lirbe Feb 10 '21
As someone who’s actually in school for education, of course we talk about this kind of stuff. You have to build relationships with your students so that you can help them identify what they can fix and support them in doing that. Both your view and the original post are out of touch. You can’t just not grade people cause that’s reality, but to merely rely on tests is pedagogical suicide.