What is the most important subject taught in school?

I pressed you too in the Blackwater thread, and you went silent. We both have something against each other, so let's just start over, please. :truce:

 

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I honestly don't remember that - I may have missed your last post because it isn't my nature at all to leave something unchallenged.

But I'm really not a bad guy, so I'll agree to let both slide and accept the truce.

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The most important subject ACTUALLY TAUGHT in school, or the most important subject that SHOULD BE TAUGHT in school?

I think the most important thing to teach children is how to think critically. But it is rarely taught. In fact, a lot of schools actively suppress critical thinking.

 

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Yes, that's an excellent point! But it still doesn't matter much if the kids haven't learned to read (ranking by comparison).

 

The most important thing to teach a child is how to learn.

 

Reading is the most important subject taught in school. If you can read you can learn on your own even after leaving school. Knowing how to read means you can find information that has been written by other people. All the knowledge of the world is available to you.

You can read about history, math, science, or any other subject.

 

We have reached a conclusion, reading, writing, and math are the most important subjects taught in school. Anything that comes after is purely opinion.

In my thought, it really matters on how subjects are taught to a student. If by teaching to kid that in a way, the kid will be able to develop the skills for critical thinking, such as understanding concepts and principals.

 

Exactly. If someone has the ability to read, their education never has to end. (Unfortunately, there ARE those who are too lazy to read but that's beyond the scope of this discussion.)

 

Learning comes first. And is often neglected.

 

Should reading even be a subject? Seems to me it would be better taight at home, before the child enters schoool.

 

Sure it should be. And yes, a lot of parents take the time to start the process before school starts - but that's only the very basic beginning.

 

Yes. At the same time i believe formal education should start much later in life, about 16 years old. Disseminate child like connotation.

 

You have got to be kidding.

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I think kids should be encouraged to learn from babyhood. Make learning fun and exciting. Encourage reading, writing, drawing, coloring, curiosity and games that help in challenging concepts. Thats what I had.

 

Yes, reading should be a subject. It should be taught right through junior high school. During the elementary school grades it should be taught for at least an hour per day.

Reading isn't simply being able to read words. That is decoding, a part of reading. Reading is decoding, understanding, recognizing context clues, along with other distince subsets of skills.

While parents can teach a child to read at home few of them can teach the nuances and subskills of reading that are so important.

The importance of reading is the reason most elementary schools have seperate reading consultants who are teachers who have gone for extra courses leading to a degree in teaching reading.

 

'Schools' have taken on a mythical role in western cultures. Formal education has monopolized much of what we consider to be learning. Much of the 'stuff' taught is self-fulfilling and circular. After basic efficiency in reading and arithmetic, most 'schooling' is overplayed in importance. Learning is definitely important but there's poor return on the thousands of hours spent in a formal classroom. Education is an industry. Kids are bundled up at the age of five (or whatever) and thought to be sent off 'to learn', when in fact, they are more likely sent off because that is just the societal norm and expectation.

With a decline in birthrates in western countries, there may be a decline in the emphasis on formal education in our culture. In fifty years the choices of 'learning' will be more eclectic...much more home schooling, informal neighborhood groups and so on. There will still be a massive child formal education system but 'less massive'. 'Learning' and 'School' won't be as tied together as they are in today's mindset.

 

That's a pretty distorted view of the way things currently are and an even worse distortion of what's to come. You are simply not in full touch with reality.

 

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