Education: Creative Teachers and Students

[Her Lao]

I always have said this (I have always said this): teachers at the upper middle school to high schools are, for the most part, just to get the "student move along" and "get deeper into their interests."

You can't really teach young people by the upper middle school and high school levels; at those more advanced stages, HABITS are already formed AND HARDENED, both good and bad habits.

You really need to GET TO THEM WHEN THEY'RE STILL BETWEEN 1st and 5th grades.

To me, even though I've never taught young elementary school students, except when I was doing student teaching, THIRD GRADE is really around what I would consider a crucial or "turning point" in a person's life IN EDUCATION.

If the kids are able to READ, WRITE, and UNDERSTAND the written words, and do arithmetic (simple counting, adding, subtracting, etc), around the 3rd-4th year, probability of them going on to do well in the middle school and high school ARE VERY HIGH.

If they struggle to read and write during these 2-3 very crucial years, as seen from 2nd through 4th grades, they WILL likely struggle in upper elementary, in middle school, and in high school.

This is why I have always argued we need to pay ELEMENTARY SCHOOL TEACHERS better, make it more difficult, so you'd recruits the most gifted and dedicated from college... so all of them don't go on to mindless jobs like creating stupid gadgets that come out every business quarter that people think they CAN'T LIVE WITHOUT... stupid gadgets that really don't do any thing for any one that they can't live without.

I, for example, have NEVER USED any Apple products in my entire life, and it is a company that is approaching a ONE TRILLION DOLLAR IN MARKET CAP, the largest and most useless company in the world, whose sole focus is ENTIRELY gadgets to fill people's time...

The other bright college graduates --- if you don't recruit them, of course --- are those going into "business" and advertisement... people who sit for ENDLESS HOURS to come up with the most idiotic ("creative," they call them) ideas TO CONVINCE YOU YOU WILL DIE IF YOU DON'T CAMP OVER NIGHT BY APPLE STORES TO RUSH INSIDE THEM TO THROW THEM TONS OF MONEY FOR STUPID GADGETS they've just completed in China (with work conditions that literally drive many low paid Chinese workers to commit suicide)!

Smart, creative, and educated YOUNG PEOPLE graduating from good colleges and universities SHOULD BE PAID TO TEACH SOCIETIES CHILDREN --- to study and to learn about worms, frogs, trees, soil, rivers, oceans, stars, chemicals, computers and how they work (rather than how much you could get out of people if you come up with so programs that make bird digitals flutter!), violence and how to solve them, how ecosystems work, etc. ---- NOT to sit for hours to come up with schemes to milk shopper's pockets for every dime they have (and for some don't even have for which they must borrow)...

[Her Lao]

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PERSONALLY AT 1.5 YEAR-OLD IS MUCH TOO A BABY FOR SCHOOL THINGS. AT 3 OR MORE WILL BE A BETTER TIME. 1.5 JUST NEED BABY SITTER FOR JUICE/MILK AND CLEANINGS. AT 1.5 WILL NOT COMMIT A LASTING KNOWLEDGE TO LAST UNTILE U TIMES. RESERVE THAT BRAIN UNTIL HIGH SCHOOL. DO NOT COOK THAT BRAIN AT 1.5
AT 3 WAS THE TIME I STILL REMEBER AT THIS TIME. IMPORT THINGS/EVENT WHEN I WAS 3 I STILL CAN TELL MY KID LIKE A STORY TODAY. THEY HAT THOSE BORING STORIES. BUT THEY WERE COMMITTED DEEP ENOUGH IN MY BRAIN THAT THOSE 2 STROKE CAN NOT GET RID OF THEM. I THINK THEY ARE WITH ME 4EVER.

AT 4-5 I BURNT OUR FARM HOUSE BECAUSE OF WASP MAKE A HOME TO THE BAMBOO LOG THAT WAS PART OF THE HOUSE. AT FIRST MY SISTER ANTICKD I FIGHT MY WASP WITH STICKS. I GOT A BETTER IDEA SO I RAN INSIDE THE HOUSE PUSH MY STICK INTO THE FIRE PIT IT BURNT BLIGHTLY THAN I RAN OUTSIDE AND PUSH THE STICK TO THE WASP'S NEST.. HAHA. I WON... OOPS! THE FIRE START FLAMING UP THE HOUSE. I SCREAM FOR MY PARENTS DOWN HILL ABOUT 300 METERS DOWN THE RIVER EDGE. MY SISTER 3 YEARS OLDER THAN ME JUST CRY GEOGRAPHY SETTING MADE MY VOICE FLOAT TO THE OTHER SIDE OF THE MOUNTAIN INSTEAD OF GOING DOWN TO MY PARENTS BT THE RIVER'S EDGE. GOOD THING MY MOTHER'S UNCLE WAS THE FARMER AT THE OTHER SIDE OF THE MOUNTAIN. HE SAW THE FLAME AND HERE MY VOICE SO HE RAN DOWN THE MOUNTAIN TO THE RIVER EDGE AND SCREAM TO MY PARENTS THAT THE FARM HOUSE WAS BURNING AND HE HEARD THE KID SCREAMING. MY PARENT RAN UP THE FARM TO THE FARM HOUSE. BY THE TIME MY PARENT GOT TO US THE HOUSE WAS ALREADY GONE. 3 DAYS MY PARENTS MADE A NEW/BETTER FARM HOUSE NO MORE WASP NEST.