“What students lack in school is an intellectual relationship or conversation with the teacher.”
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If you improve education by teaching for competence, eliminating schooling, and connecting with students, the test scores will improve.
To counter the avoidance of intellectual challenge and responsibility, we must reduce the domination of certainty in education.
Prior to being allowed to enter the profession, prospective teachers should be asked to talk with a group of friendly students for at least half an hour and be able to engage them in an interesting conversation about any subject the prospective teacher wants to talk about.
We can teach a lot of things, but if the teacher can't relate by talking to a group of friendly students, he'll never be a competent teacher.
