What if every community had a Head Master who's main job was to single out and interview kids for their wants and needs? And to drink beer at the pub each night with the entire community?
Do you think this person could link up kids with teachers?
A happy go lucky kid who loves horses and cows might go to old man Brown. His kids have left to become engineers and doctors.
A smart kid who's mom washes laundry for a living might go to Professor Harris. He works for the local mining industry as at chemistry and geology.
Then if the kid goes from a young assistant to Professor Harris to knowing as much as his teacher and applies to a higher Head Master?
Say one at a large academic center? The head master meets and talks with the 17 year old. Makes a match in his realm of influence or passes the youth to another who needs the kids desire.
What is the kid was paid for his worth instead of the head master being paid for just being there? What if the head master was paid by a percentage of a fee from whichever enterprize eventually proffited from the kid?
Just a thought. This is a rather moderate clipping of the current system of fancy birds in robes blessing idiots with diploma.
What do you think? Any better systems?
Originally posted by scipio7777777In my Mythical system above, the music kid would go the the theatre or the symphony. The art kid would go to the agency or the cartoon projects or the higher Head Master of art at the next level.
sounds ok
I personaly like the idea of much shorter school than we currently have but cut out music, art, keyboarding and other retarded classes and just teach and focus of math, science, history, and reading/writing ability (not all the touchy feely emotional crap we do in english class)
LOL. I am amused at your term "Retarded Classes". This is a big argument for my change. You really do need to think about the implications of not offering support to ALL artistic and intellectual endeavors. Maybe you are a tradesman at heart? A clever local education Shaman would quickly see that.
What is touchy feely about Shakespeare? Well... except for the part where the heads are "feelied" from their shoulders by swords?
I personally love the Headmaster idea. Many kids who fail out of school aren't stupid or un-motivated, its just that the stuff they like isn't focused on in school. The only problem with that idea is that there will not be adequate openings in everybodies interest. Take Hawaii for example since it's easy for me. If the headmaster idea was applied, he would find that vast majority of the kids want to be proffessional surfers for thier life, and there is simply not that many pro surfer spots. Meanwhile, there would be a drastic shortage within math and science, which traditionally here local students have had trouble with. Perhaps on a worldwide average the idea would work better, but within each community there is usually similar preferences for the people.
In regards to the other post, I would have a hard time deleting the non-core classes of a school. If we just learned raw science and math it may increase your power of theory and the such, but your practical application is going to take a nose dive. And like most more traditional cultures belive, there is two sides to everything, rhyme and reason, yin and yang, etc. You cannot have wholly art or wholly science, but only a blend of the two.
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Originally posted by scipio7777777No. It makes you uninspired. That you were there on the far shore defending the right of your land and the power of right over wrong.
it just seems worthless to me all the non academics in school
shakespeare may have helped me but it was all stupid to my point of view (does that make me dumb?)
WESTMORELAND. O that we now had here
But one ten thousand of those men in England
That do no work to-day!
KING. What's he that wishes so?
My cousin Westmoreland? No, my fair cousin;
If we are mark'd to die, we are enow
To do our country loss; and if to live,
The fewer men, the greater share of honour.
God's will! I pray thee, wish not one man more.
By Jove, I am not covetous for gold,
Nor care I who doth feed upon my cost;
It yearns me not if men my garments wear;
Such outward things dwell not in my desires.
But if it be a sin to covet honour,
I am the most offending soul alive.
No, faith, my coz, wish not a man from England.
God's peace! I would not lose so great an honour
As one man more methinks would share from me
For the best hope I have. O, do not wish one more!
Rather proclaim it, Westmoreland, through my host,
That he which hath no stomach to this fight,
Let him depart; his passport shall be made,
And crowns for convoy put into his purse;
We would not die in that man's company
That fears his fellowship to die with us.
This day is call'd the feast of Crispian.
He that outlives this day, and comes safe home,
Will stand a tip-toe when this day is nam'd,
And rouse him at the name of Crispian.
He that shall live this day, and see old age,
Will yearly on the vigil feast his neighbours,
And say 'To-morrow is Saint Crispian.'
Then will he strip his sleeve and show his scars,
And say 'These wounds I had on Crispian's day.'
Old men forget; yet all shall be forgot,
But he'll remember, with advantages,
What feats he did that day. Then shall our names,
Familiar in his mouth as household words-
Harry the King, Bedford and Exeter,
Warwick and Talbot, Salisbury and Gloucester-
Be in their flowing cups freshly rememb'red.
This story shall the good man teach his son;
And Crispin Crispian shall ne'er go by,
From this day to the ending of the world,
But we in it shall be remembered-
We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;
For he to-day that sheds his blood with me
Shall be my brother; be he ne'er so vile,
This day shall gentle his condition;
And gentlemen in England now-a-bed
Shall think themselves accurs'd they were not here,
And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks
That fought with us upon Saint Crispin's day
If that don't fire your belly, you are not a man of fire and worth!
Yeah. While the headmaster idea isn't bad, it's kinda like the question they post in high school, what would you do if you had a million dollars, the answer supposedly being what your proffesion should be. And as stated in Office Space, it's not applicable to real life because nobody would want to clean up crap all day if they had a million dollars, therefore, nobody would end up being janitors.
Originally posted by HawaiianhomegrownIt goes back to "Should children have the vote".
Yeah. While the headmaster idea isn't bad, it's kinda like the question they post in high school, what would you do if you had a million dollars, the answer supposedly being what your proffesion should be. And as stated in Off ...[text shortened]... a million dollars, therefore, nobody would end up being janitors.
How many of your high school kids will answer that they want to work like a dog for 11 dollars per hour to make rich people even richer?
not too many. Because? They are children. They think they are of worth as movie stars and ball players and .... mythical things worth millions. After all... mom and dad say so every day.
Right?
Or worse yet, mom and dad say they are worth nothing.
Either row, there is a field that has been planted.
Did you read Henry above? "Should we carry the day..." Doesn't that bring wonder and want to your soul?
Yes...I do know Henry the 8th. And my soul is already filled with wonder and I try to keep it void of want. And if everyone could see the daily beauty of life and didn't feel the need to have all these things, I think the people in power would find themselves in a very compromised position.
Originally posted by HawaiianhomegrownCool. Henry 8 was just horny and mean and mostly impotent and unlucky.
Yes...I do know Henry the 8th. And my soul is already filled with wonder and I try to keep it void of want. And if everyone could see the daily beauty of life and didn't feel the need to have all these things, I think the people in power would find themselves in a very compromised position.
What about Henry V?
Originally posted by WulebgrWhy thank you Wooly,
Truly ideal communities consist of folks only learning about things that already interest them in school. Great idea!
Any ideas to refine it? How do we destroy the peacoccs in their finery wallowing diploma on the simple minded each semester?
Better yet... Just how do we rid ourselves of these officious banty roosters?
Originally posted by StarValleyWygive 'em hens to keep 'em busy. Just ask Foghorn Leghorn: America's greatest philosopher!
Why thank you Wooly,
Any ideas to refine it? How do we destroy the peacoccs in their finery wallowing diploma on the simple minded each semester?
Better yet... Just how do we rid ourselves of these officious banty roosters?