Over the years, I have been writing about misconceptions regarding the schooling process. The purpose of these posts is to explain why I disagree with various comments that I have heard people make about schooling. These are meant as personal thoughts rather than conclusive proof, and I will admit that I'm not always the best at explaining my thoughts. Regardless, I have decided that I should be willing to share these posts when I encounter someone online who makes an argument that I have already discussed.
Have you heard that literacy is a gift teachers give to children? How about the idea that multilingualism is the gift teachers give to children? Fortunately, I haven't seen this obvious defiance of common sense often, but the variants make me think something has been feeding it.
As I have repeatedly stated, we have a serious problem with undermining the role of learning in the educational process. What I find especially annoying about this is that Miguel Cardona has been one of the people who has pushed this narrative. This wasn't isolated. Cardona repeatedly pushed messaging that undermined the role of the learner.
Joe Biden insisted he wanted a teacher-centric department of education. This was one of the reasons I refused to vote for him. What better way was there to get a teacher-centric department of education than to select someone with absolutely no comprehension of the role learning plays in education as the Secretary of Education? Personally, I found Miguel the Incompetent to be a complete embarrassment to our country.
Anyone who uses this argument, regardless of what subject we use to fill in the blank, is proving a lack of a fundamental understanding of how education works. We can't simply give learning to a learner. The learner must play a role. We need to stop downplaying the role people must play in their own educations.
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