MY THOUGHT – TEACHING THEN AND TEACHING NOW

The only reason teaching needs to be restored is that what was good, focussed, core teaching has been stymied, distorted, and thoroughly confused by the ignorant efforts of myriads of educators who apply new theories and angles to ‘make names for themselves’.

They couldn’t or wouldn’t leave well alone. 

When sense and sensibility prevail, people accept what has gone before and build on solid educational foundations. 

When irrationality and unfettered ‘excitement’ about new ideas push reality to one side, all that has gone before gets dumped, and a new perspective emerges. 

Unfortunately, this sort of approach skews and screws education into impossible trajectories.

Sadly, although Mr Voigt’s book may be about restoration, revitalisation, and re-establishment, I have to wonder ‘to what’.

In terms of training and expectation, we had a fantastic approach to education in the 1960s and 1970s. However, that has gone south over the following decades, with our students becoming pawns in the endless succession of new schemes.  

What used to be educational, certainly in the past, has now turned into everything from a hazy mirage to a heavy fog. Students have been guinea pigs, and teachers have been imposed on unrealistically.