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How about if PARENTS teach either?
ArishMell · 70-79, M
@RoguishEyes That would need both parents being sufficiently educated in both science and theology... a tall order, methinks!
@ArishMell Need??? Why?
Were YOUR parents sufficiently educated in both science and theology?
Were YOUR parents sufficiently educated in both science and theology?
ArishMell · 70-79, M
@RoguishEyes Actually, yes, in one branch of science.
My father was a Chartered Electrical Engineer working as a scientist, and was very practical.
He could have taught me Mathematics, Electrical principles (highly mathematical), electrical and electronic circuit design and how to build working circuits. Oh, and how to make first-rate wooden cabinets for those!
He tried to help me with my homework but I lack the innate ability to learn Maths - so in turn I could not have become a professional Engineer or Scientist as I had once wanted.
Religion? We were nominally Anglican but not strong church-goers. Neither parent could have taught RE beyond a simple description of just that one faith.
They could not have taught any other subject from the normal school curriculum. Proper teaching is for professional teachers in a real school. Academically, the most that parents can and should try to do is encourage (not force!!!) their children and help them with homework - but might struggle if the methods taught differ from their own for the same topic.
I will explain my statement then.
Teaching anyone anything academic (including religious studies), needs the teacher to know the subject to at least the intended level.
Further, proper teaching is itself a skill not many people have.
Some people even though not professional school teachers or university lecturers, can do both.
Many know their particular subject but have no idea how to teach it.
Many might make good teachers but do not know their intended subjects well.
Many, perhaps most, know neither the wanted subject nor how to teach anything.
Hence the fundamental weakness of the self-contradictory and frankly selfish "home-schooling" idea.
My father was a Chartered Electrical Engineer working as a scientist, and was very practical.
He could have taught me Mathematics, Electrical principles (highly mathematical), electrical and electronic circuit design and how to build working circuits. Oh, and how to make first-rate wooden cabinets for those!
He tried to help me with my homework but I lack the innate ability to learn Maths - so in turn I could not have become a professional Engineer or Scientist as I had once wanted.
Religion? We were nominally Anglican but not strong church-goers. Neither parent could have taught RE beyond a simple description of just that one faith.
They could not have taught any other subject from the normal school curriculum. Proper teaching is for professional teachers in a real school. Academically, the most that parents can and should try to do is encourage (not force!!!) their children and help them with homework - but might struggle if the methods taught differ from their own for the same topic.
I will explain my statement then.
Teaching anyone anything academic (including religious studies), needs the teacher to know the subject to at least the intended level.
Further, proper teaching is itself a skill not many people have.
Some people even though not professional school teachers or university lecturers, can do both.
Many know their particular subject but have no idea how to teach it.
Many might make good teachers but do not know their intended subjects well.
Many, perhaps most, know neither the wanted subject nor how to teach anything.
Hence the fundamental weakness of the self-contradictory and frankly selfish "home-schooling" idea.
@ArishMell We can all be anything we want to be...on the internet. 🤭
ArishMell · 70-79, M
@RoguishEyes True, but I don't see what point you are trying to make... if any.
@ArishMell The point is, I can say my parents were the King and Queen of Mars, if I wanted to. That doesn't make it true. Lots of vivid imaginations and unprovable outright lying here on the internet.
ArishMell · 70-79, M
@RoguishEyes Who is lying? I'm not. I told the truth about my own background and I put forward sincere observations on life.
That you find those uncomfortable is up to you although I fail to see why they should; but hurling insults about goes nowhere.
Anyway, you have not answered the OP question.....
That you find those uncomfortable is up to you although I fail to see why they should; but hurling insults about goes nowhere.
Anyway, you have not answered the OP question.....
@ArishMell I never said anyone was lying. I merely said that claims made on the internet can't be proven.
And I am allowed to answer a question or offer an opinion on a PUBLIC forum. Sounds as if you approve of censorship, especially when you are challenged.
And I am allowed to answer a question or offer an opinion on a PUBLIC forum. Sounds as if you approve of censorship, especially when you are challenged.
ArishMell · 70-79, M
@RoguishEyes Of course you are allowed to express your opinion on the OP or some point raised by it, but you did not answer the question.
Instead you rather dismissively suggested I was lying - and still did not give your views, nor why you apparently disagreed with me.
I replied to your question by saying no, my parents could not have taught both science and theology though my Dad could have taught mathematics and the specialist area of science he worked in.*
I am not a parent but I know I could not have taught difficult academic subjects. I doubt most people could, either. That's why we have schools!
So what is your answer to the thread's heading question?
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My brother ran into a peculiar problem, as I think many other British parents did, when trying to help their children with their homework. Some decades after he and I had left school, arithmetic teaching became overtaken by fads and fancies including very strange new ways to perform basic operations like multiplication. These were so different from the normal way, many parents were left baffled and unable to help!
Instead you rather dismissively suggested I was lying - and still did not give your views, nor why you apparently disagreed with me.
I replied to your question by saying no, my parents could not have taught both science and theology though my Dad could have taught mathematics and the specialist area of science he worked in.*
I am not a parent but I know I could not have taught difficult academic subjects. I doubt most people could, either. That's why we have schools!
So what is your answer to the thread's heading question?
.......
My brother ran into a peculiar problem, as I think many other British parents did, when trying to help their children with their homework. Some decades after he and I had left school, arithmetic teaching became overtaken by fads and fancies including very strange new ways to perform basic operations like multiplication. These were so different from the normal way, many parents were left baffled and unable to help!
@ArishMell How about this? NO, how about if PARENTS teach either? Was that a clear enough answer? 🙄🤦🏻♂
Again, I never suggested you were lying. That's your conscience talking to you.
Again, I never suggested you were lying. That's your conscience talking to you.
ArishMell · 70-79, M
@RoguishEyes I have no guilty conscience because I have done nothing wrong. I posted a sincere answer which you dismissed without saying why, and did not answer the heading either, which refers to teaching in schools.
Does,
.... mean you believe parents should not try to be teachers? If so then we are more or less in agreement!
Does,
NO, how about if PARENTS teach either?
.... mean you believe parents should not try to be teachers? If so then we are more or less in agreement!