Don’t forget teaching kids that the most important thing is to show up and do what you’re told (reinforced through daily practice within a regimented system to a literally mind-numbing degree), that the people in charge will not protect them and do not have their interest in mind, and that not going with the system will result in severe consequences.
(Update: Also, I think this video might be garbage. I posted it because I thought the premise was absolutely important, but I do not think that what she is diagnosing is at all why modern schools make terrible writers. I will watch more but I may delete this.)
Don’t forget teaching kids that the most important thing is to show up and do what you’re told (reinforced through daily practice within a regimented system to a literally mind-numbing degree), that the people in charge will not protect them and do not have their interest in mind, and that not going with the system will result in severe consequences.
(Update: Also, I think this video might be garbage. I posted it because I thought the premise was absolutely important, but I do not think that what she is diagnosing is at all why modern schools make terrible writers. I will watch more but I may delete this.)