> > "Kids aren't afraid of being wrong."
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> > I have ten plus years of teaching experience telling me what utter garbage that is. Kids are terrified of being wrong in school. They don't want to look foolish, they don't want to waste their time working on something and finding out their efforts were for nothing. They like being told the answer, or at the very least have their hand held and constantly assured that what they are doing is right as they look for it.
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> I believe at that point he was talking about 4 year olds, wasn't he?
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I quoted him directly. I didn't hear any qualifiers like "little" or "young."
> I think he was arguing that school actually trains kids to fear being wrong,
OF COURSE he was. All the more listen not to listen to him, really, since the current trend in education is for teachers to "facilitate" "discovery based learning" with their students, and have them arrive at their own answers. Nothing wrong with that, of course, provided that the kids have the basic skills to perform such things (many don't) or the interest in actually having to put more of an effort into their classwork (many don't).
>and so not make attempts when they aren't sure what they're expected to do.
Or, more likely, they just want to be given the "right" answer because its easier (even in circumstances where there is no "right" answer)
