Tuesday, August 3, 2021

The Teaching Cycle - Counterpoint

My idiut blogmate pushed something he referred to as the teaching cycle years ago. Predictably, he spun this cycle towards reality. I now feel obligated to push back and explain how he is once again wrong.

  1. Children are encouraged to attend our schools. We do diminish options because we all know that parents have absolutely no clue about what's best for their children.
  2. We inform them that schooling is important on the grounds that we say so. We will go out of our way to ensure their opinions of us are the correct opinions.
  3. With a handful a rebellious exceptions, most students recognize that our opinions are fact.
  4. Some students receive bad grades. This helps us weed out those who fail to conform to our correct narrative. Grades double by diminishing the odds that they can have a voice in education when they grow up.
  5. This means that the people who are most likely to want to become teachers are those who support what we are already correctly doing.
  6. These students are typically loyal, as they should be, to what we tell them.
  7. This ensures that people who accept that everything we do is right are more likely to continue on to college.
  8. Those who go to college are far more likely to invest time, money, and effort into what we all know is the one correct approach to education.
  9. To graduate with a degree in education, students need to embrace everything told by those of us pushing this correct model.
  10. If they succeed, we will give them a piece of paper that proves conclusively that they know more than anyone without that piece of paper.
  11. This piece of paper is required to ensure no outsiders with ideas infiltrate our system.
  12. Since we trained them the right way to teach, they end up teaching the same correct way.
  13. The schools maintain our progressive status quo, guaranteeing progress.
  14. A new generation of students enters with the immense progress that can be attributed to our more-of-the-same approach.

As you should be able to tell, this cycle that my blogmate criticized is vital to progress. We need to suppress voices of those who see problems because they're clearly wrong. We know this because us teachers are completely purfect. We need to maintain the status quo because that's how society moves forward. If we keep pushing the same system, we can finally fix all of the problems associated with a society that is already dependent on the same thing.

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