Even worse
Friday, 4. January 2008, 08:54:38
It is snowing a little this morning, not enough to be cool but enough to be annoyingReading the news today I discovered that the italian science teachers have been examined with the same test as the italian students who got a very bad score compared to students from other countries worldwide. The science teachers performed even WORSE than the girls and boys, it seems in some areas the intermediate school teachers outperformed the high school teachers.
This explains much. How are the students supposed to know the answers if the teachers don't know either. And the funny thing is teachers are payed to pretend to teach things they don't even know.
The Minister of Education says "we are working on a plan for the formation of teachers" and I am reading ridiculous excuses from principals and techers associations like "for many years teachers have been hired in public schools only because they waited in a list as temporary teachers" or the ilarious "science teachers aren't ignorant, unfortunately they cannot stay informed because they have got only 5 payed hours for courses". Like you don't know basic biology or chemistry if you don't keep informed all the time. The science you study in school is often centuries years old. I can almost hear the teacher saying "hey, they have discovered Earth is a sphere and it is not flat? Geez, how should I know, I don't have time for le last updates".
Did I say we are sinking? Nope, we are already on the bottom.
Usually there are 40 students and one teacher in a class. Teachers try to curb the student to complete the schedule. They seem exhausted.
So,it would be difficult to rise their teaching quality.Peccato...
By Green Aya, # 6. January 2008, 07:05:03
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By wickedlizard, # 9. January 2008, 10:47:31
By 67shelby, # 9. January 2008, 14:03:55
On top of this, the general culture of people across all over Europe and in Italy in particular has probably increased in average terms because there are very few people who can't read and write. On the other side people don't know much else, we are becoming more like USA as one single global melting pot focused on consuming goods and not aware of anything that is not broadcasted on TV.
This is a long and difficult discussion.
By LorenzoCelsi, # 9. January 2008, 16:31:10
By 67shelby, # 9. January 2008, 18:35:54
Here in Europe the main resource we have got is the heritage of all that difficult history and those many differences from any little place to the other. But young europeans are taught to be ashamed of it. We are importing any sort of foreign people and culture, forgetting our own.
This trend and the reasons of it are probably enough for some books, too much for a blog comment.
By LorenzoCelsi, # 9. January 2008, 19:13:39
By 67shelby, # 9. January 2008, 19:21:18
By 67shelby, # 9. January 2008, 19:38:44
In my opinion the biggest difference between Europe and US nowadays is not in culture but in the fact I told above, that Europeans are ashamed of themselves while Americans (still) belive to be the center of the universe, like Europeans did till the '900 and the final fire that burned everything.
By LorenzoCelsi, # 9. January 2008, 19:52:50
And yes most Americans are self-centered, obnoxious, consumers who have never had a free thought in their lives. Imagine living in that environment>
You and I may have too much in common - I try not to give in to the doom and gloom but it is hard
By 67shelby, # 9. January 2008, 20:02:52
That is depressing only if you are one of those people who wrongly think that "to do" things is more important that "to sell" things, otherwise that is fun. Have you ever seen any genial technician or artist become president of anything?
If you want to rise your kids to be successful, teach them how to grow public relations, even in the smallest things.
About girls and people being equal, I understood how things worked back in school when I was asked by the teacher and I got a bad grade then the teacher asked the girl in my class and when she could not aswer she cried and the teacher told her he would have asked again tomorrow without giving her a bad grade. Or at university, girls getting higher grades with shorter skirts.
Anyway, I meant that today's people are always saying one thing and its opposite in the same time. That produces confusion and we are stuck moving in circles like chickens without head instead of walking any direction, wrong or good.
By LorenzoCelsi, # 9. January 2008, 20:25:22
By 67shelby, # 9. January 2008, 20:33:20
What is the point in saying the wrong things (we nerds call that "truth") and make people upset at you instead of making "friends"?
Once upon a time I was managing a group of people. You don't say "that is wrong, do it again", you say "that is very good job but maybe you could try to change it a little". When somebody says a very stupid thing you don't say "see, for this and that reasons that is stupid", you say "yes, I agree with you completely but..." and so on. At the end managing means to find what motivates people and use that to make them do things you want. Saying the "truth" is the wrong thing to do since people don't want to hear that.
By LorenzoCelsi, # 9. January 2008, 20:55:15
Gotta go now - my son is awake! Enjoyed our chat
By 67shelby, # 9. January 2008, 21:03:25
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