Quote from: tee-rex on February 28, 2015, 10:48:50 PM

Quote from: Spendulus on December 10, 2014, 01:48:30 AM

Quote from: TECSHARE on December 10, 2014, 12:56:04 AM

This is exactly what Common Core is. It is designed to confuse children's ability for critical thought and logic by teaching them nonsense is ok "as long as you can explain it". This is extremely apparent in the common core math program. It is bringing children to tears all over this country trying to make sense of something that CAN NOT MAKE SENSE. This is just conditioning our children to regurgitate what they are told without a thought EVEN MORE than they already do. This is about the destruction of individual logic and will to transform it into a form of nonsensical groupthink. I am terrified for this country's future generations, they don't have a chance.

The refutation to your argument and concern is the Internet, and what we can make of it. But yes, "learning" has moved to on line forums, and doubtful it will move back into schools. Why exactly do we need them?

I beg to differ, someone wants to engage?

Schools take up where forums give up. Before all I mean acquiring social skills and learning behavior patterns through "live" communication with fellow boys and girls, which forums are so conspicuously devoid of.

NO. Look at history. Social skills and behavior pattern learning existed long before "schools". Schools were created to teach reading, writing and arithmetic, plus some advanced subjects. Later, it is usually ascribed to Dewey in the 1920s, schools started to be perverted to emphasize "teaching of social skills."

No, you don't need schools to learn social skills.