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[Eilonnwy]

A teacher told me about a plan that I think would be more beneficial than just raw knowledge pushing. He spoke of half days in school learning and the other half would be spent doing work within the community. A compromise between apprenticeship and scholastics. His argument was that not everyone could make it as a scholastically trained employee. Some would require a different life path. Right now most of those people end up in the military, so I guess THAT might be why there isn't a drive to renovate our school system. Another reason it would be good to get students out to see what the real world is so they could see how the knowledge they are aquiring might be used in the real world.

Rhizo

Definitely. Especially when you consider that not all students learn the same way and it's proven that visual and audio help makes learning easier. I've known for a while that I'm an auditory learner. I can have trouble absorbing literature but if you take the same thing and just talk about it, my ability to retain the information is better.

I like that idea of combining less classroom studies and more experience based learning. Experiences are what help people to retain the knowledge.